Emergency
A Vernacular Contextual Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12692689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bohdana Kurylo (0000-0003-4089-702X, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isr/viac036 |
| OpenAlex | W4285803483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 69 |
Security scholars have traditionally viewed emergency as a state of exception that triggers a struggle for survival, justifying the breaking of rules and excesses of state power. While there have been attempts to decouple security from its survivalist logic, emergency has remained an analytical blind spot in security studies. The dominance of an elite-centric, exceptionalist paradigm in the study of emergency has foreclosed the possibility of alternative conceptions of emergency and neglected the voices of structurally disempowered agents. This paper advances a vernacular contextual research agenda that is sensitive to the empirical diversity of emergency meanings and practices while foregrounding emergency claims made by non-elite actors. Challenging the idea of emergency as a form of “anti-politics,” the paper contends that emergency should be understood as an intrinsic part of politics. It then recovers an alternative, “emancipatory” conception of emergency as an extraordinary moment of spontaneous beginnings that can activate the collective agency of marginalized actors. The final section establishes conceptual foundations for actor-centered, grounded empirical research into emergency politics and suggests avenues for future research. Contextualizing emergency and attuning to the voices and experiences of everyday actors are crucial to remove the key variable that ties security to the logic of survival and exception
Agency (philosophy · Elite · Emergency management · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Vernacular · Computer Science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Security and Public Health · Peacebuilding and International Security · Law
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The Ukrainian subject, hierarchies of knowledge production and the everyday
Stay safe, stay home? Majority world children, the Covid-19 pandemic, and (everyday) security politics
A politics of living (in)security
Imagining security from gender violence in the Pacific Islands
Exceptional (in)security
Strategies of Critique in Vernacular Security Discourse
Covid-19 and the Limits of Critical Security Theory
Counting Security in the Vernacular
Probing the humanitarian securitisation approach to great-power wars
Juridico-political conditions of exceptional security measures
Theory of World Security
Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies
Emergency Claims and Democratic Action
Risk and the War on Terror
Security and the Environment
Security
Emergency Politics
Political Theology
The Contemporary Exercise of Emergency Powers
Whose violence, whose security? Can violence reduction and security work for poor, excluded and vulnerable people
A World of Emergencies
Events dear boy, events’
States of Exception on the Mexico?U.S. Border
Forum
Emergency Politics After Globalization
Toward a Vernacular Security Studies
Forum
No way out
Security and the democratic scene
What’s in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings
Security, economy, population
Performing preemption
Politics, security, theory
WHO decides on the exception? Securitization and emergency governance in global health
Horizon Scan
Reclaiming the political
The Copenhagen School on Tour in Kyrgyzstan
Vernacular theories of everyday (in)security
Is securitization a ‘negative’ concept? Revisiting the normative debate over normal versus extraordinary politics
Vernacular Security
Extraordinary or ordinary emergency measures
Guantánamo Bay and the Annihilation of the Exception
The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School
Security and the problem of context
What is the value of security? Contextualising the negative/positive debate
Counter-populist performances of (in)security
Law transformed
Transactions after 9/11
Governing emergencies
The concept of ‘the everyday’
Rethinking Security after the Cold War
Buying time for democracies? European Union emergency politics in the time of Covid-19
Cybersecurity, Bureaucratic Vitalism and European Emergency
Mutual Aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Renaissance of Security Studies
From Threat to Risk? Exceptionalism and Logics of Health Security
Minding Exceptions
The Politics of Exceptionalism
The Politics of Emergency
Fit for purpose? Fitting ontological security studies 'into' the discipline of International Relations
Slow emergencies
Geopolitics as palimpsest
Governing events and life
The politics of organising during the pandemic
Vernacular Securities and Their Study
Securitization as political theory
Had We But World Enough and Time (Reconsidering 'Emergency)
Introduction
Crowded Places Are Everywhere We Go
Must Exceptionalism Prove the Rule? An Angle on Emergency Government in the History of Political Thought
A Talent for Life
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |