Description
This contribution is part of a wider research project that explores the making of liberal war economies. In this contribution, I am focusing on the agency of civilians in producing and challenging the production of (in)security and war through workplace organising in arms companies. Building on feminist and critical research that highlighted the everyday as a productive site of collective violence and militarism, I am exploring the lived experience of people making objects for security institutions, the discipline they are encountering and the organising they are engaged in. Civic engagement and activism aim to render visible the everyday involvement of civilians in producing (in)security. However, bringing critique to the home, workplace, and community is not a harmonious process, but is often framed as disruptive and comes with threats to job security and disciplinary action. At the same time, workplace organizing is organizing in the everyday and its construction as “disruptive” challenges us to pay closer attention towards the violence occurring in the workplace that is the basis of its “everyday” routines.
