Security and crisis in an everyday perspective

Research on ‘the everyday’ focuses on personal and ordinary experiences in relation to security and crisis, often drawing on feminist insights. It turns to overlooked agents and alternative sites that may be messy and mundane, taken for granted, or invisible in mainstream literature. It includes studies on the micropolitics of ‘new’ or alternative security actors. Another strand in the literature is contestation; for instance, resistance towards security strategies and the traditional framing of politics, security, and crisis. Typically, research on the everyday highlights both vulnerabilities and the power/agency of the subjects.