The new edited volume, Securing Empire, co-edited by Ozan Ozavci (together with Beatrice de Graaf and Erik de Lange) is out now.

This collection brings together contributions that explore the many lives of ‘security’ in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine how the quest for security shaped imperial cooperation and competition, while also being used as a pretext for colonial expansion, violence, and genocide—patterns that persist in various forms today. Crucially, the pursuit of security created new hierarchies, assigning unequal value to human lives based on race and religion, further entrenching enduring systems of (symbolic) oppression.