Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence

Burke, Anthony

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“…The ethics of relation accentuates diversity and interdependence of human beings. It is based on the recognition of others through giving up the conception of "self-contained and self-referring ego, one that seeks mastery over its environment, nature, and other human beings" (Burke 2013: 87; see also Burke 2007).…”

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Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

Daniel¹,

Turcsányi²,

Potjomkina³

et al. 2015

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A former security bureaucrat who has fled the world of security professionals in order to make sense of it, his research focuses on two interconnected issues -first, security discourses and everyday, as well as ceremonial practices of Central European security professionals under post-socialism; and second, urban marginality and the relationships of marginalization, ethno-racial stigmatization and class reproduction to the spread of frames of insecurity and practices of surveillance, repression, and punishment in Central Europe. Contact: lubomir.luptak@gmail.com. Diāna Potjomkina is a Research ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFrom the position of authors responsible for the editorial work on this volume, we would like to thank several people who commented on its drafts at various stages. Dagmar Rychnovská, Tomáš Karásek, and Marian Majer contributed with their valuable reflections and helped to improve the quality of individual chapters as well as the whole publication as such. We also appreciate the contribution of Mirka Pavlíková, who helped us with the finishing touches of the text and Matt Rees, who was responsible for the proofreading and copyediting. This publication is the second one in the Global Politics Special Series and in this regard we would like to thank Aleš Karmazin for his work on the previous publication in the Special Series, which paved the way for this one. Our thanks go also to the rest of editorial board of Global Politics. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to the director of the International Institute of Political Science (IIPS) Prof. Vít Hloušek, and the head of the Department of the International Relations and European Studies at Masaryk University, Dr. Petr Suchý -as well as other staff at these institutions -for their long-standing support of Global Politics in general and the Special Series in particular. Especially the help of Lucie Mořkovská from the IIPS was essential and the books of Special Series would perhaps never been published without her.Obviously, the authors of this volume declare that they are wholly responsible for any possible inaccuracies or mistakes. Jan Daniel and Richard Turcsányi V VI SUMMARYThis book employs various theories of contemporary security studies to explore some of the most important and most common security issues in Central Europe at this time. Individual chapters of the book adhere mainly to European branches of critical and constructivist security studies, through which they look at some of the salient topics of Central European security politics.The distinction between internal and external security issues is employed throughout the book for analytical purposes. Under this framework, alliance building, security guarantees, "special relationships," the relational politics of identity, and relations with major powers -documented in the book on the case of Latvia's relations with United States -are examples of external security issues. Various pressing domestic security challenges, illustrated on the case of Hungarian far-right movements and the...

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Section: From Critical Theory To Critical Methodologymentioning

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Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

Daniel¹,

Turcsányi²,

Potjomkina³

et al. 2015

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“…Critical scholars routinely claim not be 'doing ontology' and, indeed, to be challenging desires for "ontological security" (Huysmans 1998, 242) that underpin securitizing interventions against unintelligible Others (Huysmans 1998;Campbell 1998;Walker 1990;Burke 2007). Nonetheless, as William Connolly (1992, 144-5) reminds us, every analysis -even those pertaining to the critique of given ontologies -contains fundamental presumptions about the world that inevitably structure our frameworks of interpretation.…”

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Security (studies) and the limits of critique: why we should think through struggle

Coleman

Rosenow

2016

Critical Studies on Security

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This paper addresses the political and epistemological stakes of knowledge production in post-structuralist Critical Security Studies. It opens a research agenda in which struggles against dominant regimes of power/knowledge are entry-points for analysis. Despite attempts to gain distance from the word 'security', through interrogation of wider practices and schemes of knowledge in which security practices are embedded, post-structuralist CSS too quickly reads security logics as determinative of modern/liberal forms of power and rule. At play is an unacknowledged ontological investment in 'security', structured by disciplinary commitments and policy discourse putatively critiqued. Through previous ethnographic research, we highlight how struggles over dispossession and oppression call the very frame of security into question, exposing violences inadmissible within that frame. Through the lens of security, the violence of wider strategies of containing and normalizing politics are rendered invisible, or a neutral backdrop against which security practices take place. Building on recent debates on critical security methods, we set out an agenda where struggle provokes an alternative mode of onto-political investment in critical examination of power and order.

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“…September 11 accelerated the already imploding world of globalization and made various aspects of societal and existential security central to many people's self-perceptions. This is also reflected in international relations theory which is no longer limited to state security but elaborates a broad variety of threats (Booth 2004;Burke 2007;Manners 2006;Weiss 2005). Within this emerging body of research is a renewed focus on securitization and desecuritization.…”

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Global insecurity and citizenship strategies: Young Muslims in the West

Kinnvall

Nesbitt‐Larking²

2011

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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This article is set in the contemporary context of global challenges: economic crises, state deformations, and rapidly accelerating flows of people, ideas, and ideals. It has two main aims. One is to establish theoretical and empirical links between securitization studies and analyses of citizenship in the light of globalization, multiculturalism and discourses on terror. The second is to illustrate how macro events play out at the collective and individual level in terms of socio-psychological (in)securities that condition different citizenship strategies. The empirical basis for the article includes our studies of Western Muslims in the Netherlands, France, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, and Canada. The article proposes and develops three maps of citizenship strategies in three major sections: retreatism, essentialism, and engagement. Each section elaborates psycho-spatial ways of being in the world that characterize both majority populations and Muslim minorities as they attempt to adapt to the rapidly changing and challenging nature of a globalizing world. The first is the Westphalian version of retreatism that is grounded in an orientalist world of metropolis and distant colony. The other two citizenship strategies are motivated by a world in which territory and space are increasingly in question. In response to a shrinking global experience, the second citizenship strategy, that of essentialism, builds upon and reinforces the binary opposition between East and West in the panic establishment of psycho-social distance, separateness, and rigid distinctiveness. The third citizenship strategy is that of engagement. A strategy of engagement affirms and works with the plurilocational, multiple, and hybrid experiences of the postcolonial and increasingly cosmopolitical world in practices of dialogical openness and deep multiculturalism.

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Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence

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Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

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Global insecurity and citizenship strategies: Young Muslims in the West

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