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Title:
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A critical application of securitization theory: overcoming the normative dilemma of writing security
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Author:
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Charrett, Catherine
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Other authors:
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Institut Català Internacional per la Pau |
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Resum:
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This article addresses the normative dilemma located within the application
of `securitization,’ as a method of understanding the social construction of
threats and security policies. Securitization as a theoretical and practical undertaking is being increasingly used by scholars and practitioners. This scholarly endeavour wishes to provide those wishing to engage with securitization with an alternative application of this theory; one which is sensitive to and self-reflective of the possible normative consequences of its employment. This article argues that discussing and analyzing securitization processes have normative implications, which is understood here to be the negative securitization of a referent. The negative securitization of a
referent is asserted to be carried out through the unchallenged analysis of securitization processes which have emerged through relations of exclusion and power. It then offers a critical understanding and application of securitization studies as a way of overcoming the identified normative
dilemma. First, it examines how the Copenhagen School’s formation of securitization theory gives rise to a normative dilemma, which is situated in the performative and symbolic power of security as a political invocation and theoretical concept. Second, it evaluates previous attempts to overcome the normative dilemma of securitization studies, outlining the obstacles that each individual proposal faces. Third, this article argues that the normative dilemma of applying securitization can be avoided by firstly, deconstructing the institutional power of security actors and dominant security subjectivities and secondly, by addressing countering or alternative approaches to
security and incorporating different security subjectivities. Examples of
the securitization of international terrorism and immigration are prominent
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Publication date:
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2010-11-24 |
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Subject (UDC):
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35 - Administració pública. Govern. Assumptes militars |
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Subject(s):
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The Copenhaguen School
Escola de Copenhague
Escuela de Copenhague
Polítiques de seguretat nacional
Políticas de seguridad nacional
Security policy, National
Terrorisme
Terrorismo
Terrorism
Securitization
Securitització
Securitización |
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Pages:
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47 p. |
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Document type:
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Working Paper |
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ISSN:
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2013.5793 (en línia);
2013.5785 (paper)
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Collection:
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2009/7;
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