ABSTRACT
Brunilda Pali: 0000–0002–2280–6625
The chapter addresses critically the merging of the ‘cultural turn’ with (in)security discourses. Both the produced and the emerging cultural diversity introduce challenges related to security and justice, calling for better communication and participatory approaches that would support the handling of social conflicts, while aiming at reducing uncertainty, restoring trust and promoting cooperative actions. The chapter presents in a complementary fashion some critical perspectives on security, which offer useful insights that can support the agenda of restorative justice as an approach that aims to counteract the (in)security discourses in intercultural contexts. More specifically, the chapter focuses on security as a threat to collective identity, perceived as a sort of exceptional politics, and elaborates further the merging of security with notions of ‘cultural difference’ by looking at security as a routinised biopolitical apparatus. Additionally, the analysis moves towards ways of thinking about security that might be more fruitful for conceiving the contribution of restorative justice, by linking the framework of ‘immunisation’ with the notion of ‘conviviality’, and discusses further the normative approaches that are needed when thinking about security, highlighting a possible path for restorative justice.
