Hegemonic Security Discourse: Late Modernity’s Grand Narrative

Michalis Lianos’ intervention started highlighting the fact that fear plays a noticeable role in generating belonging feelings and that collective insecurity can be understood as the purest form of community belonging.

The context and elements triggering «dangerization process» have been substantially transformed along the last thirty years. In the current context the increase of prosperity has been simultaneous to an increasing culture of defence.

Taking all this into account, Lianos asserted, however, that the hegemonic security discourse is not representative of social reality. Nonetheless, for Lianos the current security discourse is: an effective mean of stimulating community belonging; an effective vehicle of post-industrial political power; an effective tool of collective tool; an effective generator of hegemonic culture. All this peculiar aspect contribute to confer to the security debate, all the potential to become the ‘grand narrative’ of the present time.

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