Interview – Holger Stritzel
Dr Stritzel discusses what it means to be “critical”, assesses developments in securitization studies, and gives some advice for young Critical Security Studies scholars.
What do International Relations Academics think about Security Threats?
The survey confirmed that experts continue to have an eye firmly on the bigger picture of global politics, despite alarmist rhetoric and limited popular debate.
Analysing but Not Seeing: What’s Missing When We Forget Images in IR
Security is not solely constructed discursively but also visually. Dominant securitization theory ignores the latter, leaving it somewhat decontextualized.
‘Children of the Stones’: The Securitization of Palestinian Children by Israel
To understand the complex and highly subtle securitization of Palestinian children by the Israeli state requires going beyond the Copenhagen School’s analysis framework.
Implications of the Securitisation of Migration
The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.
Norms and the Securitisation of Infectious Diseases
The emergence and socialisation of the norm of responding to health threats as security threats has reshaped and expanded the global security agenda.
Emotion and Dystopian Idealism in Security Studies
While forms of power are important they do not necessarily shape collective emotions which can be situated in a much more dispersed sets of cultural practices.
Review – Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe
Mary Manjikian’s book is an invaluable contribution, and will be a primary reference point for those exploring the regulation of squatting across Europe and elsewhere in the world.
Security, Society and the Games
To file the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics away as a success would ignore the ways in which they have revealed evolutions in the practices of security and its impact on contemporary society and politics.
The Securitisation of Swine Flu?
With the emergence of swine flu in April 2009, international actors have quickly scrambled to develop and implement health measures in an attempt to minimise or eliminate the possibility of a full-blow pandemic. In particular, during these early stages states and the World Health Organization (WHO) appear to have begun the process of engaging swine flu with political priority. This raises two interrelated points: is swine flu being securitised and if so, why?
