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Working Title of PhD: Harbouring Global Insecurity:Constructing Transnational Port Security

Summary: This criminological project aims to research, interdisciplinarily, everyday lives of port policing and security personnel who construct security in the transnational spaces of European seaports. Analysing social realms of port security in Greenock, Grangemouth port and Clydeport, Port of Rotterdam and Port of Hamburg will shed light on how workers control and eliminate transnational insecurities at national seaport borders. It will contribute to a critical engagement within the prioritised theorisation of the globalised security society and of security consumerism.

Keywords: Criminology; Port Security; Transnational Spaces

Year commenced PhD study: 2010   (full time)

Funding sources: 

• Prince Bernhard Culturefund scholarship (2010 - 2011)
• Dr Hendrik Mullerfund scholarship (2010 - 2011)
• ESRC Studentship Socio-legal studies/Criminology pathway (2011-2013)

Publications

 Eski, Y. (forthcoming) ‘‘Port of Call’: Towards a Criminology of Port Security’ in Criminology & Criminal Justice: an International Journal.

Eski, Y., McGuinness, P. and Burman, M. (2011) Changes to Scotland’s Criminal Justice System Post-Devolution: Main legislative developments, major reviews of policy and procedure, and the introduction of ‘new’ bodies. Audit Scotland.

Eski, Y and Armstrong, S. (2011) Scottish Crime, Punishment and Justice Cost Trends in Comparative Context. Audit Scotland.

Eski, Y. (2010) Book review: Mireille Hildebrandt, Abiola Makinwa and Anna Oehmichen (eds), Controlling Security in a Culture of Fear (2009) in Probation Journal, 57, 4, 426-428.

Eski, Y. (2009) 'Globale Verdamnung und Individuelle Repräsentation: Der Emostyle niederländischer Jugendlicher' in Martin Büsser, Jonas Engelmann and Ingo Rüdiger (eds) Emo: Porträt einer Szene (2009), 81-93. Mainz: Ventil Verlag.