Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention

Gomes, Mariana Selister; Marques, Renata Rodrigues

doi:10.1177/09670106211027795

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“…This article contributed to the securitization and foreign policy analysis literature by providing empirical evidence for gendered rhetoric in all parts of securitization process that are employed in foreign policy narratives on the audience level. Not only does the article emphasize the role of the audience in the securitization process, which has been mostly ‘skirted’ in the literature (Balzacq et al, 2010; Vaughan-Williams and Stevens, 2016), but it also puts gender at the centre of the conceptualization beyond the silence argument (Gomes and Marques, 2021; Hansen, 2020).…”

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“…Securitization theory has come a long way since the landmark publication in 1998 of Security: A New Framework for Analysis (Buzan et al, 1998) that argued for an intersubjective understanding of security. Not only has it moved beyond the five political sectors where securitization could potentially take place (economic, societal, military, political and environmental), but it also incorporated analysis of gender and race (Gomes and Marques, 2021), as well as moving beyond speech act (Guillaume, 2018) and to everyday practices and discourses (Balzacq et al, 2010; Bigo, 2002). In its original conceptualization, a mere uttering of ‘security’ was enough to place a matter outside the realm of ‘normal politics’ (MacDonald and Lake, 2008) but, in later versions, securitization’s success has been mostly associated with the adoption of extraordinary measures to deal with the existential threat to the referent object.…”

Section: Gender and Audience In Securitization Processmentioning

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Damsels in distress: Fragile masculinity in digital war

Gaufman

2022

Media, War & Conflict

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The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination of anti-Ukrainian rhetoric that Russian political elite and state-controlled media have been promoting at least since 2013. Apart from accusing Ukraine of being a Neo-Nazi state, pro-Kremlin commentators have espoused a heavily gendered rhetoric describing Ukraine as a loose woman in need of saving by its older brother. Gendered discourse was instrumentalized in Russian foreign policy not only through aggressive masculinity, but also through femininity. The latter, in contrast, sought to downplay the aggressive masculinity associated with fascism and consequently diminish Ukraine’s agency and status compared to Russia. This article offers a taxonomy of feminization rhetoric that shows how different types of gendered constructs influence the success of securitization process. Drawing on empirical material from Russian social networks during the first war in Ukraine in 2014–2016, this article argues against gender’s silencing role but, instead, its central role in influencing every stage of securitization process. Moreover, the author shows how feminization rhetoric paved the way to the legitimation of the current war.

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Damsels in distress: Fragile masculinity in digital war

Gaufman

2022

Media, War & Conflict

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“…As this paper will be using a postcolonial lens, recent authors are suggesting the need to embrace this approach to better understand the reality of securitization (Gomes & Marques, 2021;Ratuva, 2016, Bertrand, 2016Howell & Richter-Montpetit, 2020). A postcolonial lens on securitization theory is vital to the advancement of the future of the theory, as it highlights whom the theory is ignoring and purposely marginalising.…”

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“…A postcolonial lens on securitization theory is vital to the advancement of the future of the theory, as it highlights whom the theory is ignoring and purposely marginalising. It is important to have a postcolonial lens on securitization theory as until recently, there have been minimal to no considerations for coloniality, race, and gender in the theory (Gomes & Marques, 2021). The postcolonial lens of securitization is meant to directly acknowledge whom the securitizing process is targeting, instead of looking at the events that cause it or the power structures of the speech act.…”

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“…The postcolonial lens of securitization is meant to directly acknowledge whom the securitizing process is targeting, instead of looking at the events that cause it or the power structures of the speech act. Currently, securitization theory, especially the Copenhagen School approach, silences minorities and vulnerable people (Gomes & Marques, 2021). This is done to reinforce power structures.…”

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Securitization and the Impacts and Perceptions of Migration Post-2015: A Scoping Review of Canada and Germany

Cox

2024

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<p>This MRP looks at the responses of Canada and Germany to the 2015 refugee crisis.Applying a postcolonial lens to securitization theory and understanding, this research critically looks at the contexts surrounding Canada and Germany's responses and in how these countries implemented securitizing measures, looking at the inherent issues within the act. Through a scoping review, themes of the literature include national identity, the grapple between 'new Canadians' and 'willkommenskultur,' the role of the media, the role of the audience, and the gendering and racialising of refugees. With the goal in mind of what the future of securitization theory could look at, this paper also offers suggestions on how to reconcile with securitization following the critical postcolonial lens on the responses of Canada and Germany.</p>

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The Post-Communist Far Right and Its Transnational Linkages

Paulovičová,

Soroka

2024

Nationalities Papers

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In this special issue, our contributors move the academic conversation beyond methodological nationalism and approaches that analyze far-right movements only within their respective state contexts by interrogating the circulation of ideologies, funds, and people across sociopolitical boundaries. Our goal is to scrutinize the far right in post-communist Eastern Europe by examining the multitudinous and multidirectional ties that exist between groups at the local, regional, national, and transnational levels. Attention, moreover, is paid not just to those factors that facilitate such linkages, but also to the obstacles that hamper these flows via various detours, omissions, and other forms of resistance. In this introduction, we offer a theoretical overview and discussion of contributors’ findings to argue that conduits for the dissemination of far-right discursive frames are hardly unidirectional in nature. As a result, the transitological narratives of progress and regress typically invoked to explain the emergence of the far right offer only a partial understanding of how it mobilizes, builds alliances, and circulates ideas. We unpack the conceptual pitfalls and fallacies of transitological narratives and instead foreground the concept of multidirectionality, which opens up new avenues through which to understand how far-right groups mobilize and disseminate their narratives.

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Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Damsels in distress: Fragile masculinity in digital war

Damsels in distress: Fragile masculinity in digital war

Securitization and the Impacts and Perceptions of Migration Post-2015: A Scoping Review of Canada and Germany

The Post-Communist Far Right and Its Transnational Linkages

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