Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 62-80

Journal: Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies

Volume number: 47

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0258-9346

eISSN: 1470-1014

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2020.1712831

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
The paper proposes to use the concept of co-production to account for the mutual co-production of private as well as public security actors and critical infrastructure. Through an exploration in the field of urban security provision, we aim to contribute to critical security studies by turning to the entanglements of public and private security actors in the process of securitising infrastructure. As the construction and provision of infrastructural security depends neither solely on public nor private actors but on their interaction, we propose the concept of co-production to account for these dynamics. Based on a focused ethnography, the paper mobilises material collected during a security conference in Israel, in which the close connections between private and public security actors were forged and where infrastructure was at the heart of the security concerns.

Harvard Citation style: Nolte, A. and Westermeier, C. (2020) Between Public and Private: The Co-production of Infrastructural Security, Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 47(1), pp. 62-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2020.1712831

APA Citation style: Nolte, A., & Westermeier, C. (2020). Between Public and Private: The Co-production of Infrastructural Security. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies. 47(1), 62-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2020.1712831