%0 Journal Article
%T Nuclear (in)security in the everyday: Peace campers as everyday security practitioners
%A Catherine Eschle
%J Security Dialogue
%@ 1460-3640
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0967010618762595
%X This article extends the emergent focus on ¡®the everyday¡¯ in critical security studies to the topic of nuclear (in)security, through an empirical study of anti-nuclear peace activists understood as ¡®everyday security practitioners¡¯. In the first part of the article, I elaborate on the notion of everyday security practitioners, drawing particularly on feminist scholarship, while in the second I apply this framework to a case study of Faslane Peace Camp in Scotland. I show that campers emphasize the everyday insecurities of people living close to the state¡¯s nuclear weapons, the blurred boundaries between ¡®us¡¯ and ¡®them¡¯, and the inevitability of insecurity in daily life. Moreover, campers¡¯ security practices confront the everyday reproduction of nuclear weapons and prefigure alternative modes of everyday life. In so doing, I argue, they offer a distinctive challenge to dominant deterrence discourse, one that is not only politically significant, but also expands understanding of the everyday in critical security studies
%K Anti-nuclear
%K critical security studies
%K the everyday
%K (in)security
%K feminism
%K peace movement
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967010618762595