Vida Bajc and Williem de Lint, eds., Security and Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 2011, 312 pp. $ US 44.95 paper (978-0-415-85344-6) $133.00 hardcover (978-0-415-99768-3). For centuries issue of has been one of central concerns of governing. However, Foucauldian approach suggests that role plays in governing is reformulated with rise of liberal art of government, government whose existence is dependent on production of freedoms as well as controlling, constraining, and coercing of such freedoms. Then, what is cost of manufacturing freedom? What are implications of interplay between freedom and for control? What are roles of new mechanisms in ordering, framing, and constructing appropriate behavior? Security and Everyday Life presents perspective through which these questions could be answered. This volume addresses complexities of relationship between and everyday by formulating meta-theoretical framework through which operations of dynamics embedded in everyday can be made visible, and by means of which rationale behind approaching various social situations and cultural phenomena as a potential threat to security (p. 1) can be uncovered. In other words, by illustrating scope of bureaucratic surveillance woven into fabric of everyday practices, this volume seeks to demonstrate how has become an ordering principle of cultural and life. The information gathered by extensive apparatus serves to generate exclusionary categories where world is classified on basis of binary opposition between orderly and disorderly by means of which sovereign power's legitimacy for preemptive action or reaction is guaranteed. However, in order for activities of apparatus to receive acceptance from public it is necessary to form specific perception of reality within which public is made to feel protected from or--alternatively--of being exposed to, potential harmful irregularities in public life (p. 3). This becomes possible by communicating to public fear of disruptive forces. Only then conditions are completed for creation of context in which concerns of can trump all else. This international collection is composed of ten chapters, organized around four sections. Each chapter cogitates about idea that is an ordering principle of everyday life, and contributes to understanding of dynamics of meta-framing through an examination of various case studies. The section Public Spaces and Collective Activities concentrates on issue of securitized spaces in order to examine ways in which reality of is imagined by apparatus of state and how this reality is maintained through the self-correcting behavior (p. 21) of public. The section Struggle and Resistance provides examinations of state-centric securitization processes in order to both demonstrate possibility of emergence of alternative perceptions of reality when person(s) or groups confront security-insecurity dichotomy, and also discuss potential to challenge what meta-message should be, and by whom it should be determined. The section Law, Citizenship and State questions dominance of in political discourse by juxtaposing state's ability to produce preemptive visions of disorder and its corresponding preemptive responses, practices of exclusion, and manifestations of state exceptionalism to rule of law, citizenship, and individualism in order to show how becomes ultimate trump card. The section Global Agendas, Global Transformations demonstrates how meta-frame has become dominant determinant in arrangement of everyday globally while examining implications of global transformations of at transnational, regional, and international levels. …