Collective Discussion: Diagnosing the Present

Walker, R. B. J.; Shilliam, Robbie; Weber, Heloise; Plessis, Gitte du

doi:10.1093/ips/olx022

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“…The contemporary global rise of the far-right has drawn great attention across society and academia, setting political research on a new path (Walker et al. 2018 ; Li 2019 ). One such line of inquiry hopes to create conditions to conceptualise the far-right across geographies through the ‘authoritarian populism’ framework (Scoones et al.…”

Section: Authoritarian Populism and Environmental Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental governance under Bolsonaro: dismantling institutions, curtailing participation, delegitimising opposition

Menezes

Barbosa

2021

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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Tensions concerning environmental governance have increased in Brazil since the far-right came to power in 2016. We offer insight into this process by analysing the first two years of Jair Bolsonaro’s (2019-ongoing) environmental policies—namely, how Brazil’s environmental protection arrangements are being dismantled. We find that the Bolsonaro administration centralises environmental governance in Brazil through complementary authoritarian and populist means. First in restricting participatory decision-making spaces such as the National Environmental Council (Conama) and the National Council of the Legal Amazon (CNAL), and, second, by attacking indigenous and traditional peoples, NGOs, scientists, and other environmental defenders. To illustrate the authoritarian dimension of Bolsonaro’s environmental governance, we carry out a political-institutional analysis of contemporary Brazilian environmental politics and then exemplify the ways and extent to which attacks against environmental defenders is a constituent part of Bolsonaro’s environmental populism. We hold that such attacks are not merely rhetorical but a political tactic to legitimise Bolsonaro’s authoritarian environmental governance in the promotion of ‘total extractivism’ while maintaining a populist appeal.

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Section: Authoritarian Populism and Environmental Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental governance under Bolsonaro: dismantling institutions, curtailing participation, delegitimising opposition

Menezes

Barbosa

2021

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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“…Recall our introductory discussion about the swathes of incredulity about the 'time we are in' (how could that happen?). There may be an understandable rush, by academics, politicians, activists, people in general, to explain the craziness -the 'that' -though this can hurtle us toward political or theoretical panic (Walker et al 2018). We suggest that it is important not to rush to speedy closure and secure grasping of that which we cannot swiftly comprehend.…”

Section: Spectral Theorizing -A Disordering Methodologymentioning

confidence: 85%

Security unbound: spectres of feminism in Trump-time

Zalewski

Runyan

2019

Critical Studies on Security

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“…It is a lineage of thought through which we can try to understand how that what is taking place in the sites they study requires us to rethink how we bring security practices into political language as a transversal politics. (Walker et al 2018) Developing such a point of view is thus not simply an intellectual exercise. It speaks to needs for rethinking politics in light of contemporary situations.…”

Section: From Configurations Of Movement To Unfolding Confluences Of Movementsmovingmentioning

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Motioning the politics of security: The primacy of movement and the subject of security

Huysmans

2021

Security Dialogue

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The article explores challenges that giving conceptual primacy to movement poses for thinking the politics of security. In security studies, there has been an intense interest in mobile phenomena and the nature of security techniques that seek to control, contain or steer them. However, when exploring how these mobile phenomena bear upon conceptions of politics and their contestation, the analytics tend to turn back to more static or sedentary categories and reference points. Against this background, the article develops an analytical framework for security and its politics that gives conceptual primacy to movement. Giving conceptual primacy to movement implies three key moves: (a) changing lines from enclosures and connectors to pathways; (b) shifting from understanding movement through positions and nodes to the continuity of movement; and (c) displacing architectural and infrastructural readings of the relations between movements with readings of continuously unfolding confluences of movements moving in relation to one another. Applying these three moves displaces conceptions of movement as border crossings and networked connections with the notion of entangling movements moving in relation to one another. One of the implications for security studies is that taking such a point of view challenges the use of ‘the subject of security’, understood in terms of state sovereignty and the positioning of differential security claims hooked into group identity, as a key device for making security politically meaningful and contested. The article concludes that giving conceptual primacy to movement invites security studies not to limit itself to studying the politics of movement but to also incorporate a motioning of politics.

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Collective Discussion: Diagnosing the Present

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Environmental governance under Bolsonaro: dismantling institutions, curtailing participation, delegitimising opposition

Environmental governance under Bolsonaro: dismantling institutions, curtailing participation, delegitimising opposition

Security unbound: spectres of feminism in Trump-time

Motioning the politics of security: The primacy of movement and the subject of security

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