Open AccessSECURITY AGAINST THE STATE IN REVOLUTIONARY YEMEN
Author(s) -
PORTER ROSS
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca35.2.02
Subject(s) - securitization , state (computer science) , state security , political science , state of exception , political economy , mexican state , security studies , media studies , sociology , public administration , law , politics , business , computer science , algorithm , financial system
ABSTRACT What does security look like when it is deployed against rather than by the state? Focusing on the 2011 revolution in Yemen, this essay hints at a number of ways in which the revolutionaries sought to outwit the machinations of state securitization by taking security into their own hands.