01.07.2022 New anthology on the "Mobility-Security Nexus" published

The thematic group "Mobility" of the Collaborative Research Center 138, under the editorship of Heidi Hein-Kircher and Werner Distler, has published the English-language anthology "The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order. An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention".

This book explores the complex, multidirectional interrelationships of mobility and security in the reorganization of states, empires, and markets in historical perspective. It brings together numerous contributions to the question of how mobility and security interact in the emergence of order beyond the modern state. While mobility, migration, and critical security studies have already focused on some of these aspects - for example, the construction of mobility as a political threat or the role of infrastructure and security - a comprehensive conceptual framework to capture the relationship between mobility and security and its role in social, political, and economic orders has been lacking. With author:s from sociology, international relations, and various historical disciplines, this transdisciplinary volume historicizes the relationship between mobility and security for the first time. The volume is a response to the call for more studies that are both empirically and historically grounded. It presents extensive case studies ranging from the late Middle Ages to the present, providing examples from the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Habsburg Empire, Papua New Guinea, Rome in the 1980s, or the European Union today. In this way, the volume conceptualizes the mobility-security nexus from a new, innovative perspective and also highlights it as a driving force for social and state development.

The book is especially aimed at researchers and students of critical security studies, mobility studies, sociology, history, and political science.