Theorising from Beirut’s Southern Suburbs: Spatialised Capital and Habitus in ‘Nested Everyday Security Fields’

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Everyday security practices in Beirut's Southern Suburbs reveal complex social dynamics and hierarchies, showing how residents navigate safety.
The framework developed uses Bourdieu's concepts to address dominance in security fields, emphasizing social position and local knowledge.
Nested security fields describe the intertwined nature of security practices, influenced by place, incidents, and residents' dispositions.
This approach aims to decolonise and vernacularise security studies, highlighting the importance of localized understanding and practices.

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Theorisation explores everyday security practices in a postcolonial context, indicating a need for nuanced frameworks in critical security studies.

Smaira et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Theorisation explores everyday security practices in a postcolonial context, indicating a need for nuanced frameworks in critical security studies.