Alison Howell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3688117 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alison Howell |
| PRENOMES | Alison |
| SOBRENOME | Howell |
| ASSINATURA | HOWELL A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4814-6872 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 417 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Upholding disciplinary whiteness
This article examines the #SdScandal: the backroom and public fracas surrounding an article on epistemic racism in classic securitization theory that we authored. It argues that what the #SdScandal illustrates is that disciplinary whiteness in international relations has been upheld not despite, but in part through, the ‘critical turn’. Using textual analysis as well as cyber-ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods, it details how post-positiv…
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
Is securitization theory racist? Civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack thought in the Copenhagen School
This article provides the first excavation of the foundational role of racist thought in securitization theory. We demonstrate that Copenhagen School securitization theory is structured not only by Eurocentrism but also by civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack racism. Classic securitization theory advances a conceptualization of 'normal politics' as reasoned, civilized dialogue, and securitization as a potential regression into…
Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies
This article argues that while Foucauldian security studies (FSS) scholarship on the biopolitics of security and liberal war has not ignored racism, these works largely replicate Foucault's whitewashing of the raciality and coloniality of modern power and violence. Drawing on Black, indigenous, postcolonial and decolonial studies, we show how Foucault's genealogy of biopower rests on an unspecified concept of the “human,” failing to account for h…
Racism, African American Women, and Their Sexual and Reproductive Health
Background: The sexual and reproductive health of African American women has been compromised due to multiple experiences of racism, including discriminatory healthcare practices from slavery through the post-Civil Rights era. However, studies rarely consider how the historical underpinnings of racism negatively influence the present-day health outcomes of African American women. Although some improvements to ensure equitable healthcare have been…
Forget “militarization”
This article investigates the limits of the concept of militarization and proposes an alternative concept: martial politics. It argues that the concept of militarization falsely presumes a peaceful liberal order that is encroached on by military values or institutions. Arguing instead that we must grapple with the ways in which war and politics are mutually shaped, the article proposes the concept of martial politics as a means for examining how …
The (Mis)appropriation of HIV/Aids advocacy strategies in Global Mental Health
BACKGROUND: Mental health is increasingly finding a place on global health and international development agendas. Advocates for Global Mental Health (GMH), and international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, argue that treatments available in high-income countries should also be made available in low- and middle-income countries. Such arguments are often made by comparing mental health to infectious dis…
From killing to mortality? History and race inDeath and Security
Death and Security: Memory and Mortality at the Bombsite asks a provocative question about the field of security studies: why have we not dealt with death adequately, and how might we do so more ro
Neuroscience and War
Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have led to increasing concern about its uses in warfare. This article challenges the primacy of dual-use frameworks for posing ethical questions concerning the role of neuroscience in national security. It brings together three fields – critical war studies, bio-ethics, and the history of medicine – to argue that such frameworks too starkly divide ‘good’ and ‘bad’ military uses of neurotechnology, thus focusi…
Resilience as Enhancement
Rescaling and Responsibilising the Politics of Urban Resilience: From National Security to Local Place-Making
The Global Politics of Medicine
This article makes the case for a new field in International Relations (IR): the Global Politics of Medicine. It argues that significant avenues of research can be opened up by focusing on medicine and the life sciences, in order to both challenge current IR theories, and develop new theoretical and empirical insights in IR. In particular, the article challenges the validity of securitisation theory, and specifically the argument that health has …
Resilience, war, and austerity
This article traces the rise of military psychological resilience training, focusing on the US Army's Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program, which seeks to assess and instill resilience in soldiers and their families through techniques developed in the discipline of positive psychology. In maximizing the happiness, optimism, and mental fitness of soldiers, military resilience training has two aims: (1) to produce a fit fighting force c…
Introduction
Recovery and resilience are now two of the central frameworks for organizing mental health care in the Western world. These frameworks posit that mental health "patients" can recover from their illnesses, and that resilience may be developed as a strength in order to avert or prevent so-called mental illness from the outset. The turn to "recovery" and to "resilience" has occurred in a context wherein mental health governance models based centrall…
Human Interest and Humane Governance in Iraq
This article argues that the story of the Baghdad zoo in the Iraq war and the ‘human interest’ it attracted are important for the analysis of warfare and humanitarian intervention. The activities at the zoo are notable precisely because they provide a specific site through which to analyse the increasing entanglements between war and humanitarianism, and practices associated with civil–military cooperation. The recovery and reconstruction efforts…
The Demise of PTSD
This article raises questions about the possible waning of the authority of the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While avoiding predictions, it points to signs that the authority of PTSD is now being challenged by both the rise of resilience-based models and the increasing authority of biomedical and neurological approaches in the governance of trauma. It explores these challenges in various empirical sites, including humanitari…
The International Political Sociology of Psychology and Mental Health
Over the last decade, mental health has become a matter of sustained attention in international public policy. In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a major report on Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope. It stressed that one in four people will be affected by mental or neurological disorders, globally, creating a need to close the “treatment gap” between rich and poor countries. This approach has been bolstered by medical l…
Toward an International Political Sociology of Health and Medicine
Health is a difficult thing to argue with. We desire it, pursue it, and wish it for others. And yet, actions taken in the name of health are certainly not always benevolent. Health imperatives—perhaps particularly in the global arena—are often vexed, caught up in the exercise of power, and come with unintended consequences. For this reason, the study of health in international relations, and of the uses, rationales, and authority of medicine, is …
Madness in International Relations
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and sovereign, at other times disciplinary, and at still othe…
Madness in international relations
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and sovereign, at other times disciplinary, and at still other…
Sovereignty, Security, Psychiatry
This article examines how psychiatry has been used as a technology of security in post-‘liberation’ Iraq. Drawing on Foucault and Foucauldian work on the history and sociology of medicine, it begins by tracing how, from the 19th century onwards, psychiatry has instantiated its authority through a claim to provide social security within national spaces, both through methods of sovereign confinement and through liberation and governance. Arguing th…
Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over 'Terrorist' Detainees at Guantánamo Bay
This article traces the pathologization of suspected terrorists held captive at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The occurrence of several reported suicide attempts among the detainees provided “proof” for their captors that terrorists are indeed fanatical madmen. These same reports of suicide attempts, however, were contradictorily diagnosed by human rights and humanitarian organizations as evidence of psychological deterioration …
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance
Both for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale…
Is securitization theory racist? Civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack thought in the Copenhagen School
This article provides the first excavation of the foundational role of racist thought in securitization theory. We demonstrate that Copenhagen School securitization theory is structured not only by Eurocentrism but also by civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack racism. Classic securitization theory advances a conceptualization of 'normal politics' as reasoned, civilized dialogue, and securitization as a potential regression into…
Forget “militarization”
This article investigates the limits of the concept of militarization and proposes an alternative concept: martial politics. It argues that the concept of militarization falsely presumes a peaceful liberal order that is encroached on by military values or institutions. Arguing instead that we must grapple with the ways in which war and politics are mutually shaped, the article proposes the concept of martial politics as a means for examining how …
Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies
This article argues that while Foucauldian security studies (FSS) scholarship on the biopolitics of security and liberal war has not ignored racism, these works largely replicate Foucault's whitewashing of the raciality and coloniality of modern power and violence. Drawing on Black, indigenous, postcolonial and decolonial studies, we show how Foucault's genealogy of biopower rests on an unspecified concept of the “human,” failing to account for h…
Resilience, war, and austerity
This article traces the rise of military psychological resilience training, focusing on the US Army's Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program, which seeks to assess and instill resilience in soldiers and their families through techniques developed in the discipline of positive psychology. In maximizing the happiness, optimism, and mental fitness of soldiers, military resilience training has two aims: (1) to produce a fit fighting force c…
The Demise of PTSD
This article raises questions about the possible waning of the authority of the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While avoiding predictions, it points to signs that the authority of PTSD is now being challenged by both the rise of resilience-based models and the increasing authority of biomedical and neurological approaches in the governance of trauma. It explores these challenges in various empirical sites, including humanitari…
Resilience as Enhancement
Rescaling and Responsibilising the Politics of Urban Resilience: From National Security to Local Place-Making
The Global Politics of Medicine
This article makes the case for a new field in International Relations (IR): the Global Politics of Medicine. It argues that significant avenues of research can be opened up by focusing on medicine and the life sciences, in order to both challenge current IR theories, and develop new theoretical and empirical insights in IR. In particular, the article challenges the validity of securitisation theory, and specifically the argument that health has …
Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over 'Terrorist' Detainees at Guantánamo Bay
This article traces the pathologization of suspected terrorists held captive at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The occurrence of several reported suicide attempts among the detainees provided “proof” for their captors that terrorists are indeed fanatical madmen. These same reports of suicide attempts, however, were contradictorily diagnosed by human rights and humanitarian organizations as evidence of psychological deterioration …
Neuroscience and War
Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have led to increasing concern about its uses in warfare. This article challenges the primacy of dual-use frameworks for posing ethical questions concerning the role of neuroscience in national security. It brings together three fields – critical war studies, bio-ethics, and the history of medicine – to argue that such frameworks too starkly divide ‘good’ and ‘bad’ military uses of neurotechnology, thus focusi…
Introduction
Recovery and resilience are now two of the central frameworks for organizing mental health care in the Western world. These frameworks posit that mental health "patients" can recover from their illnesses, and that resilience may be developed as a strength in order to avert or prevent so-called mental illness from the outset. The turn to "recovery" and to "resilience" has occurred in a context wherein mental health governance models based centrall…
Sovereignty, Security, Psychiatry
This article examines how psychiatry has been used as a technology of security in post-‘liberation’ Iraq. Drawing on Foucault and Foucauldian work on the history and sociology of medicine, it begins by tracing how, from the 19th century onwards, psychiatry has instantiated its authority through a claim to provide social security within national spaces, both through methods of sovereign confinement and through liberation and governance. Arguing th…
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
Upholding disciplinary whiteness
This article examines the #SdScandal: the backroom and public fracas surrounding an article on epistemic racism in classic securitization theory that we authored. It argues that what the #SdScandal illustrates is that disciplinary whiteness in international relations has been upheld not despite, but in part through, the ‘critical turn’. Using textual analysis as well as cyber-ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods, it details how post-positiv…
Toward an International Political Sociology of Health and Medicine
Health is a difficult thing to argue with. We desire it, pursue it, and wish it for others. And yet, actions taken in the name of health are certainly not always benevolent. Health imperatives—perhaps particularly in the global arena—are often vexed, caught up in the exercise of power, and come with unintended consequences. For this reason, the study of health in international relations, and of the uses, rationales, and authority of medicine, is …
Human Interest and Humane Governance in Iraq
This article argues that the story of the Baghdad zoo in the Iraq war and the ‘human interest’ it attracted are important for the analysis of warfare and humanitarian intervention. The activities at the zoo are notable precisely because they provide a specific site through which to analyse the increasing entanglements between war and humanitarianism, and practices associated with civil–military cooperation. The recovery and reconstruction efforts…
The International Political Sociology of Psychology and Mental Health
Over the last decade, mental health has become a matter of sustained attention in international public policy. In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a major report on Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope. It stressed that one in four people will be affected by mental or neurological disorders, globally, creating a need to close the “treatment gap” between rich and poor countries. This approach has been bolstered by medical l…
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance
Both for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale…
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance
Both for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale…
Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over 'Terrorist' Detainees at Guantánamo Bay
This article traces the pathologization of suspected terrorists held captive at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The occurrence of several reported suicide attempts among the detainees provided “proof” for their captors that terrorists are indeed fanatical madmen. These same reports of suicide attempts, however, were contradictorily diagnosed by human rights and humanitarian organizations as evidence of psychological deterioration …
Sovereignty, Security, Psychiatry
This article examines how psychiatry has been used as a technology of security in post-‘liberation’ Iraq. Drawing on Foucault and Foucauldian work on the history and sociology of medicine, it begins by tracing how, from the 19th century onwards, psychiatry has instantiated its authority through a claim to provide social security within national spaces, both through methods of sovereign confinement and through liberation and governance. Arguing th…
Madness in International Relations
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and sovereign, at other times disciplinary, and at still othe…
Madness in international relations
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and sovereign, at other times disciplinary, and at still other…
Introduction
Recovery and resilience are now two of the central frameworks for organizing mental health care in the Western world. These frameworks posit that mental health "patients" can recover from their illnesses, and that resilience may be developed as a strength in order to avert or prevent so-called mental illness from the outset. The turn to "recovery" and to "resilience" has occurred in a context wherein mental health governance models based centrall…
Human Interest and Humane Governance in Iraq
This article argues that the story of the Baghdad zoo in the Iraq war and the ‘human interest’ it attracted are important for the analysis of warfare and humanitarian intervention. The activities at the zoo are notable precisely because they provide a specific site through which to analyse the increasing entanglements between war and humanitarianism, and practices associated with civil–military cooperation. The recovery and reconstruction efforts…
The Demise of PTSD
This article raises questions about the possible waning of the authority of the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While avoiding predictions, it points to signs that the authority of PTSD is now being challenged by both the rise of resilience-based models and the increasing authority of biomedical and neurological approaches in the governance of trauma. It explores these challenges in various empirical sites, including humanitari…
The International Political Sociology of Psychology and Mental Health
Over the last decade, mental health has become a matter of sustained attention in international public policy. In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a major report on Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope. It stressed that one in four people will be affected by mental or neurological disorders, globally, creating a need to close the “treatment gap” between rich and poor countries. This approach has been bolstered by medical l…
Toward an International Political Sociology of Health and Medicine
Health is a difficult thing to argue with. We desire it, pursue it, and wish it for others. And yet, actions taken in the name of health are certainly not always benevolent. Health imperatives—perhaps particularly in the global arena—are often vexed, caught up in the exercise of power, and come with unintended consequences. For this reason, the study of health in international relations, and of the uses, rationales, and authority of medicine, is …
The Global Politics of Medicine
This article makes the case for a new field in International Relations (IR): the Global Politics of Medicine. It argues that significant avenues of research can be opened up by focusing on medicine and the life sciences, in order to both challenge current IR theories, and develop new theoretical and empirical insights in IR. In particular, the article challenges the validity of securitisation theory, and specifically the argument that health has …
Resilience, war, and austerity
This article traces the rise of military psychological resilience training, focusing on the US Army's Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program, which seeks to assess and instill resilience in soldiers and their families through techniques developed in the discipline of positive psychology. In maximizing the happiness, optimism, and mental fitness of soldiers, military resilience training has two aims: (1) to produce a fit fighting force c…
Resilience as Enhancement
Rescaling and Responsibilising the Politics of Urban Resilience: From National Security to Local Place-Making
Neuroscience and War
Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have led to increasing concern about its uses in warfare. This article challenges the primacy of dual-use frameworks for posing ethical questions concerning the role of neuroscience in national security. It brings together three fields – critical war studies, bio-ethics, and the history of medicine – to argue that such frameworks too starkly divide ‘good’ and ‘bad’ military uses of neurotechnology, thus focusi…
The (Mis)appropriation of HIV/Aids advocacy strategies in Global Mental Health
BACKGROUND: Mental health is increasingly finding a place on global health and international development agendas. Advocates for Global Mental Health (GMH), and international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, argue that treatments available in high-income countries should also be made available in low- and middle-income countries. Such arguments are often made by comparing mental health to infectious dis…
From killing to mortality? History and race inDeath and Security
Death and Security: Memory and Mortality at the Bombsite asks a provocative question about the field of security studies: why have we not dealt with death adequately, and how might we do so more ro
Racism, African American Women, and Their Sexual and Reproductive Health
Background: The sexual and reproductive health of African American women has been compromised due to multiple experiences of racism, including discriminatory healthcare practices from slavery through the post-Civil Rights era. However, studies rarely consider how the historical underpinnings of racism negatively influence the present-day health outcomes of African American women. Although some improvements to ensure equitable healthcare have been…
Forget “militarization”
This article investigates the limits of the concept of militarization and proposes an alternative concept: martial politics. It argues that the concept of militarization falsely presumes a peaceful liberal order that is encroached on by military values or institutions. Arguing instead that we must grapple with the ways in which war and politics are mutually shaped, the article proposes the concept of martial politics as a means for examining how …
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
Is securitization theory racist? Civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack thought in the Copenhagen School
This article provides the first excavation of the foundational role of racist thought in securitization theory. We demonstrate that Copenhagen School securitization theory is structured not only by Eurocentrism but also by civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack racism. Classic securitization theory advances a conceptualization of 'normal politics' as reasoned, civilized dialogue, and securitization as a potential regression into…
Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies
This article argues that while Foucauldian security studies (FSS) scholarship on the biopolitics of security and liberal war has not ignored racism, these works largely replicate Foucault's whitewashing of the raciality and coloniality of modern power and violence. Drawing on Black, indigenous, postcolonial and decolonial studies, we show how Foucault's genealogy of biopower rests on an unspecified concept of the “human,” failing to account for h…
Upholding disciplinary whiteness
This article examines the #SdScandal: the backroom and public fracas surrounding an article on epistemic racism in classic securitization theory that we authored. It argues that what the #SdScandal illustrates is that disciplinary whiteness in international relations has been upheld not despite, but in part through, the ‘critical turn’. Using textual analysis as well as cyber-ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods, it details how post-positiv…
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