@article{ref1,
title="'A Brighter and Nicer New Life': Security as Pacification",
journal="Social and legal studies",
year="2011",
author="Neocleous, Mark",
volume="20",
number="2",
pages="191-208",
abstract="The article argues that the process of securing the insecurity of capitalist accumulation might best be understood as a process of pacification. Pacification is closely connected to the Vietnam War, but the article suggests that pacification has a much longer history, linking the original accumulation in the colonies with the movement towards capitalism in the West. Read in this way, pacification is a form of police power, securing the insecurity of capitalist order. This helps us make sense of the permanent 'wars on ... ' being declared by capitalist states, from the war on drugs to the war on terror, and suggests that 'pacification' is a crucial concept for understanding security.<p />",
language="",
issn="0964-6639",
doi="10.1177/0964663910395816",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0964663910395816"
}