Abstract
This chapter aims to answer the question of what security can mean in the context of a socially excluded locality when seen from the perspective of its inhabitants. Based on long-term ethnographic research in the Havířov-Šumbark locality, the chapter specifically addresses the issue of the complex and negotiable character of security.
It presents the three interpretations of Havířov-Šumbark security discourse which I call realistic, symbolic and dramaturgical. In concluding remarks, insights from interpreting the discourse of the socially excluded locality are brought back to the vernacular security studies, pointing out how engagement with the 'ordinary' people's perspective might produce a more comprehensive understanding of security workings in the social realities.