The Right to Insecurity
Tomas Percival
Current
My practice-based PhD
emerges from the urgent need to both understand
and challenge the ways in which the
complex logics of security have transformed spaces, bodies, and rights. Over
the last two decades, we have witnessed the proliferation and intensification
of various security assemblages in the UK, from the ‘hostile environment’ policies
to the ubiquity of surveillance infrastructures. This PhD examines these
heterogeneous and defused systems of control, alongside forms of activism and
fugitivity that have emerged in response to these punitive geographies. In
doing so, the thesis seeks to develop the notion of the ‘right to insecurity’
as a critical framework for intervening into the nexuses of securitisation. I am investigating these conditions
through a series of UK-based case studies.