Insecure Times: Living with Insecurity in

Insecure Timessystematically analyzes social and economic insecurity and its effect on a range of issues and institutions in Europe and North America, including: its causes, the role of the state, housing, and family life.

Contributors

ix

Preface

xi

Insecure times: conceptualising insecurity and security

1

(22)

John Vail

Introduction

1

(1)

Living in insecure times

1

(2)

Why we are writing

3

(2)

Security, insecurity and risk

5

(3)

Conceptual issues in insecurity

8

(9)

Readers' guide

17

(6)

PART I Generating insecurity

Who dreams of failure? Insecurity in modern capitalism

23

(18)

Jane Wheelock

Does insecurity matter?

23

(2)

Different views of the significance of insecurity

25

(5)

The golden age and insecurity

30

(5)

A new regime of insecurity?

35

(3)

Who dreams of failure?

38

(3)

States of insecurity: the political foundations of insecurity

41

(17)

John Vail

The state and arenas of security

41

(6)

The political foundations of insecurity

47

(5)

Paradoxes of security and insecurity: contemporary reflections

52

(6)

Insecurity: philosophy and psychology

58

(17)

Alex Howard

Feelings of insecurity

58

(1)

Facts about insecurity

59

(4)

Forms of insecurity

63

(1)

Philosophies of insecurity

64

(1)

Philosophy and coping strategies for insecurity

65

(10)

PART II Institutionalising insecurity

Fear or opportunity? Insecurity in employment

75

(14)

Jane Wheelock

The growth in insecurity

75

(4)

The sources of the problem: working all the hours God sends

79

(4)

Market competition and opportunity

83

(1)

Fear of failure: the impact of insecurity

83

(4)

The wider costs and benefits: self-exploitation or self-fulfilment?

87

(2)

Insecurity and social security

89

(16)

Michael Hill

Introduction

89

(1)

Defining social security

89

(1)

Social security: replacing morality by mathematics?

90

(2)

Social security and the security of the state

92

(2)

Who benefits from social security?

94

(1)

Who does not benefit from social security policies?

95

(1)

The insecurity of social security

96

(2)

The contemporary attack on social security

98

(5)

Conclusions

103

(2)

No place like home? Insecurity and housing

105

(14)

Roberta Woods

The security of housing?

105

(1)

The recommodification of housing

105

(1)

Residualisation

106

(3)

Tenant participation

109

(1)

Homelessness

110

(2)

Housing agencies

112

(1)

Mortgage default, repossession and negative equity

113

(2)

An insecure future?

115

(2)

Conclusions

117

(2)

Nuclear fallout: divorce, kinship and the insecurities of contemporary family life

119

(18)

Bob Simpson

Personhood, place and family life

120

(2)

Nuclear fallout

122

(3)

The unclear family

125

(3)

Managing continuity and transformation in the late twentieth century

128

(5)

Conclusion

133

(4)

PART III Insecurity as lived experience

Narratives of insecurity in Teesside: environmental politics and health risks

137

(17)

Peter Phillimore

Suzanne Moffatt

Introduction

137

(3)

Teesside: historical background

140

(2)

Environmental insecurity and environmental politics in Teesside

142

(6)

Experiences of insecurity

148

(2)

Concluding remarks

150

(4)

Insecurities in contemporary country life: rural communities and social change

154

(15)

Neil Ward

Philip Lowe

Introduction

154

(1)

Rural restructuring and contemporary country life

155

(5)

Country life and insecurity

160

(1)

Case study: the environmental regulation of farming practices

161

(3)

Case study: hunting wild mammals with dogs

164

(1)

Insecurity and lived experience: lessons from the countryside

165

(4)

The road to nowhere: youth, insecurity and marginal transitions

169

(15)

Robert Macdonald

The insecurity of youth transitions

169

(2)

Insecure transitions: the case of Teesside

171

(9)

Solving insecurity: from welfare to work?

180

(4)

Boys will be boys: social insecurity and crime

184

(15)

Beatrix Campbell

Boys will be boys...

184

(1)

...and girls will be women

185

(1)

Crime and masculinity

186

(2)

Back to basics?

188

(4)

The collapse of civilisation as we know it

192

(1)

Communities and crime

193

(6)

Democratic vistas: imagining a twenty-first-century security

199

(14)

John Vail

The democratic imagination and security

199

(3)

An egalitarian political economy of security

202

(6)

Security policies: redistribution of work

208

(5)

Bibliography

213

(18)

Index

231

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Insecure Times: Living with Insecurity in Modern Society

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