Security and the democratic scene: desecuritization and emancipation

Aradau, Claudia

doi:10.1057/palgrave.jird.1800030

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“…Deliberative politics are by definition more democratic than exceptional politics. This has led to the important debate led by Aradau (2001Aradau ( , 2004Aradau ( , 2006, Alker (2006), Taureck (2006), Behnke (2006), Huysmans (2006), andFloyd (2007) on the ethical relationship of emancipation and politicization to securitization. This follows from a productive discussion on the role of security experts (Eriksson 1999;Goldmann 1999;Waever 1999;Williams 1999).…”

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Securitization and desecuritization: a dramaturgical analysis of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority

2008

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Securitization theory has evolved over the past 10-15 years and has fuelled much exciting research, demonstrated through recent contributions by Balzacq, Stritzel, Taurek, and Floyd. Despite a growing number of case studies of successful securitization and desecuritization processes, scholars have retained the statist view of securitization: actors identify an existential threat that requires emergency executive powers, and, if the audience accepts the securitizing move, the issue is depoliticized and is considered a 'security' issue outside the rules of normal politics. This article demonstrates that there are multiple settings of securitizing moves and parses the audience within securitization theory, suggesting a model of at least four distinct types of audiences and speech contexts (popular, elite, technocratic, and scientific). The process of securitization is not a moment of binary decision but rather an iterative, political process between speaker and audience. We must not ask, 'was a securitizing move made' but 'how does a securitizing move mean?' Particularly if one adopts a more interventionist or activist notion of scholarship, a key question for experts must be: how are securitizing moves accepted or rejected? What are the politics of that successful process of (de)securitization? Using dramaturgical analysis, we suggest that securitizing moves take place within different sociological settings that operate with unique rules, norms, and practices. The example of the Canadian Air Transport Security Association is provided.

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Securitization and desecuritization: a dramaturgical analysis of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority

2008

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“…NGOs may also declare a crisis on behalf of mankind, assuming a moral authority. It is even possible to "speak security" from a subaltern position (Aradau 2004).…”

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Securitisation of Climate Change: The Risk of Exaggeration

Warner

Boas

2017

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The present contribution focuses on the ‘selling’ of the ‘climate crisis’ to intended key audiences, both in the international domain and at home. We look into the mechanics of crisis framing, the audience, and the resonance that the frame had, as well as development over time in two cases: the UK addressing the UN Security Council and the State Advisory Commission on Deltas (‘Delta Commission’) seeking support in the Netherlands for drastic measures to address sea level rise. For this, we apply the conceptual framework from critical security studies and securitisation, with contributions from the domains of crisis and disaster studies. Both case studies discussed show a dramatic securitising move, where climate change is presented as the source of great potential crisis that will harm us all, unless we take urgent action - either for mitigation (the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions) or for adaptation.

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“…The 69 70 Freedom Party argued in favor of stripping non-Dutch citizens of their voting rights in local elections and stripping Dutch citizens with a second nationality of the ability to be a member of the government, parliament and local political organs. 71 These calls for change are buttressed by reference to the supposed existential threat the crisis discourse is based on. The claim is that the threat occurred because the current structures failed to prevent it and this threat now must be dealt with by changing the structure that allowed this threat to materialize.…”

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Speaking Crisis in the Eurozone Debt Crisis: Exploring the Potential and Limits of Transformational Agonistic Conflict

Henderson¹

2017

IJPT

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Agonism as a political theory emphasizes the ontological aspect of conflict in human political interaction. This article aims to shed light on the political practice of agonism -and in doing so on its limits -by viewing 'crisis discourse' as an agonistic political practice. As my analysis of the Dutch Socialist Party and the Freedom Party's speech in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis shows, crisis discourse aimed to (re)create a 'people' and to justify radical change in economic and social structures. Crisis discourse is employed to construct an 'other' that can be based on ethnic and nationalist terms and to justify retroactive application of the law and the stripping of Dutch citizens of their rights. This attention to crisis discourse as an agonistic political practice highlights an unease within agonism itself: where must the agonist accepts limits to the conflict and contestation she so values? The article starts with Chantal Mouffe's answer to this question -her insistence that legitimate conflict must always recognize the shared values of equality and liberty -and proceeds to show that Mouffe's view unnecessarily relies on a deliberative democratic desire for consensus. Other than Mouffe, I draw on Honig's emphasis of perpetual contestation to propose that the issue of limits can be best answered by reference to the core of agonistic thought: the preservation of the struggle over political norms and processes. It is not shared values or even a shared political space that matters, but that the political space of the 'people' -however contested membership therein might be -remains a place that the 'other' can re-enter.

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Security and the democratic scene: desecuritization and emancipation

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Securitization and desecuritization: a dramaturgical analysis of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority

Securitization and desecuritization: a dramaturgical analysis of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority

Securitisation of Climate Change: The Risk of Exaggeration

Speaking Crisis in the Eurozone Debt Crisis: Exploring the Potential and Limits of Transformational Agonistic Conflict

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