ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationship between activism/resistance and security in a variety of ways. It shows three different ways in which the relationship between security, ethics, and activism and resistance can be conceptualised: first as generating alternative narratives, then as alternative practices, and finally as resistance to security/insecurity. Richard Wyn Jones suggests that critical security studies should aim to provide support for those social movements that promote emancipatory social change. Political activism broadly defined, thereby always involves some encounter with one's status as subject, agent and object of security. McDonald provides one example of critiques when he examines the Australian Government's 2003 project to distribute an anti-terrorism kit to every Australian resident. The critical security studies literature has often highlighted the status of activism and resistance as practices which open up possibilities for an ethical approach to security.
