ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on a range of theoretical inspirations; including imaginative geographies and Foucauldian governmentality as well as critical geopolitics, methodological approaches; including discourse analysis, interviewing, online research and ethnography and empirical materials; ranging from policy documents to art works. The chapter concerns the ways in which governmentality literally takes place, at specific sites and through scalar processes, and particularly in relation to mobile or transnational populations or entities. Thus, while most of the insecurities faced by most of the people in the world cannot and should not be connected to terrorism or counter-terrorism, the chapter aims to trace ways in which the dominant visions of security associated with the war on terror have been woven into a variety of geographies and have in turn been called into question.
