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Complicating security: bodies out of place

This collection explores the idea of ‘bodies out of place’ in the context of thinking about security. Security theory more broadly relies on a stable referent object; the contributions in this collection take as their objects of analysis bodies that refuse to be stable, that challenge boundaries and demand that we rethink security. Aida Hozic, Priya Dixit and Jed Horner address, in different ways, the migrant body and the precarities of this form of subjectivity. Lauren Wilcox and Till Paasche discuss military bodies out of place, in the form of fighter jets and UAVs that occupy airspace and transgress the boundaries of the state. This collection inspires us to think differently about the forms of security and insecurity that are produced through the situation of bodies out of place.