Power, Borders, Security, Wealth: Lessons of Violence and Desire from September 11

Agathangelou, Anna M.; Ling, L. H. M.

doi:10.1111/j.0020-8833.2004.00313.x

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“…It has also been theorized in critical engagements with the production of insecurity within global political systems of imperialism and neoliberal capitalism (Agathangelou and Ling 2004;Neocleous 2008) and its effects on the materialisation of bodies (Hansen 2000). However, the materiality of 'non-human things' and its relation to other discursive and material practices have been by and large absent.…”

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Security That Matters: Critical Infrastructure and Objects of Protection

2010

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Critical infrastructure protection is prominently concerned with objects that appear as indispensable for the functioning of social and political life. However, the analysis of material objects in discussions of critical infrastructure protection has remained largely within the remit of managerial responses, which see matter as simply passive, a blank slate. In security studies, critical approaches have focused on social and cultural values, forms of life, technologies of risk or structures of neoliberal globalization. This article engages with the role of 'things' or of materiality for theories of securitization. Drawing on the materialist feminism of Karen Barad, it shows how critical infrastructure in Europe is neither an empty receptacle of discourse nor does it have 'essential' characteristics, but emerges out of material-discursive practices. Understanding the securitization of critical infrastructure protection as a process of materialization allows for a reconceptualization of how security matters and its effects.

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Security That Matters: Critical Infrastructure and Objects of Protection

2010

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“…However, these questions actually reveal the social construction of state identity, the production of insecurity and the contradictory moments, fissures and breaking points in the orientalist logic of constituting Self/Other relationships as dangerous and violent. Indeed, Agathangelou and Ling (2004) highlight the precariousness of violent Self/Other politics by showing how the power politics of Bush and bin Laden mirror each other in terms of their respective insecurities, their endorsement of the global neoliberal regime, the militarization of life and the hailing of citizens to fulfill 'duties' to 'their' civilization. An increasing number of 9/11 and military families are recognizing that violence does not eliminate but rather hardens and exacerbates the very power politics that led to 9/11.…”

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Orientalism and ‘saving’ US state identity after 9/11

Nayak

2006

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 (9/11) radically destabilized the US sense of self and thus necessitated a particular reassertion of state identity that pivots violently on gender and race. This identity draws upon hypermasculinity, a religious code of ethics and the constitutive differences between Self/Other necessitating the persistent and forceful coding, interpretation and targeting of particular actors and politics as Islamic fundamentalist. In particular, 9/11's posttraumatic space requires US participation in an orientalist project that institutionalizes gendered and racialized violence through the infantilization, demonization, dehumanization and sexual commodification of the 'Other'. The US state project to 'save' its identity intertwines religion, ideology and conflict so as to permanently etch within the American psyche a fear/loathing/paternalism regarding the 'Orient' abroad and within. This article proposes a feminist theoretical framework for empirically understanding and recognizing orientalism's logic in US state identity making.---

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“…The power hierarchy between West and non-West is constructed and reconstructed through hypermasculinizing and feminizing the non-West, which is reproduced as 'subordinate' to the West. In the case of hypermasculinization, the non-West is represented as authoritarian, barbaric, violent, reactionary, irrational (or sometimes possessing 'cold rationality') (Agathangelou and Ling, 2004). Feminization of the non-West, on the other hand, constructs it as passive, emotional, weak (Han and Ling, 1998: 60-62).…”

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Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinity of the EU before and after the Arab Spring: A Gender Analysis of Euro-Mediterranean Security Relations

Bilgiç

2015

Mediterranean Politics

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Abstract:In the academic literature on EU-Southern Mediterranean relations, a focal point of neglect has been the gendered dimension of Euro-Mediterranean relations. This article will argue that the EuroMediterranean space has been formed within the gendered global West/non-West relations with the purpose of promoting the West's security interests. Euro-Mediterranean security relations, thus, embody a gendered power hierarchy between the hybrid hegemonic masculinity of the EU (bourgeois-rational and citizen-warrior) and the subordinate (both feminized and hypermasculinized) Southern neighbourhood. In addition, it will be shown that after the Arab Spring, the EU has been determined to maintain the status quo by re-constructing these gendered power relations. This gender analysis contributes to the literature on Euro-Mediterranean relations through its specific focus on the (re)construction processes of gendered identities within the West/non-West context in tandem with EU's competing notions of security.

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Power, Borders, Security, Wealth: Lessons of Violence and Desire from September 11

Cited by 125 publications

References 21 publications

Security That Matters: Critical Infrastructure and Objects of Protection

Security That Matters: Critical Infrastructure and Objects of Protection

Orientalism and ‘saving’ US state identity after 9/11

Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinity of the EU before and after the Arab Spring: A Gender Analysis of Euro-Mediterranean Security Relations

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