ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a range of chronotopes of security that exist at different scales and/or that invokes or triggers different jurisdictions. The chapter shows that focusing on the similarities and differences between two well-known paradigms of state security can shed new light on the dialogical relations that constitute different liberal security chronotopes. Studying assemblages or chronotopes of security that exist at different scales sheds light on the social production of formal state law, as scholars writing about risk and security have amply shown. Unlike the vast majority of geographers, Andrew Herod includes 'the body' as one of the scales at which important governance mechanisms operate. In keeping with Herod's acknowledgement that scalar analysis should include the scale of the body, in the chapter considers a chronotope of security that is disseminated in public health work.
