Globalization and Security : The Becoming of an Insecure Nation

Abstract

There are no two opinions on the fact that security is highly contested and politicized phenomenon and concept. The contemporary times have an unsavory knack of abusing almost everything under the sun, be it globalization (marred by blatant capitalism), facts (creating alternate facts), human beings (gender differences, sexual exploitation), language (truth and post-truth), nature (pollution and exploitation), and the list goes on; and the whole notion of ‘security’ also stands in the same territory. The paper intends towards an analysis of the argument that the yearning, and need for being far more secure (in social, economic and cultural context) than before has actually made us much more vulnerable. The failure of ‘globalization from below’, the success of ‘globalization from above’, navigation without reference to a fixed point, a North star and the absence of critical thinking and improved education policies and system, have coerced us in favour of fascist regimes, protectionism, extreme form of nationalism, walling of borders and creation of delusionary ‘threat’ and the ‘threatened’ two major elements of ‘security’. In the light of aforementioned argument, the paper plans towards fleshing out of the recent unfortunate incidents in India, where ‘cow’ is far more ‘threatened’ than the human beings and in order to protect it human beings must be lynched, the silencing of independent and questioning voices of journalists, the disappearance and suicide of students from university campuses, suicides of farmers in the absence of emancipatory policies, and lastly, manufacturing of mob who is ready to brand you as an anti-national and lynch you all in the false sense of becoming ‘secure’. This study in the wake of analysis of abovementioned incidents and