ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the postcolonial and Marxist scholars have generated important critiques of security theory and practices, and have implicitly advocated for similar ethical notions of self-securing, even though they have not advanced the agenda through the elaboration of alternative visions. It offers distinctive visions of self-securing that emerged in opposition to industrial capitalism, colonialism and imperialism in the recent decolonial work on Gandhi and Rastafari. The notions of self-securing that emerge in Rastafarian and Gandhian thought are not entrenched within the systems of colonial, capitalist, liberal modernity which are the key sources of modern insecurities. Sen's notion of human development, and the discourse of development as freedom that underpins it, are also influenced by Adam Smith and his faith in the profane market mechanism to deliver freedom. Gandhi's formulation of his ethic of neighbourliness rested on a hermeneutic that disrupted conventional understandings of power and agency.
