The Politics of Exceptionalism
Securitization and Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6147038 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Kirk (0000-0002-1006-6658, Griffith University), Matt Mcdonald (0000-0001-6636-2731, The University of Queensland) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2634-3797 • E-ISSN: 2634-3797 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isagsq/ksab024 |
| OpenAlex | W3200297302 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 74 |
The suggestion that we “are at war” with the coronavirus pandemic was not uncommon in national representations of the challenge posed by the virus. Such a representation was in turn frequently linked to the imperative of emergency responses, including expanded police powers, national lockdowns, and border closures. For theorists of securitization, this is not surprising. For them, the language of security and existential threat enables extraordinary and exceptional practices. This paper interrogates these assumptions about the performative and enabling role of securitizing language by beginning with emergency measures and asking how these were justified, how they became possible, and how prominent the language of “security” was to this politics of exceptionalism. It examines justifications for emergency responses—national lockdown and/or border closures—in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in March 2020. Ultimately, the cases examined demonstrate significant variability in justifications for similar extreme measures. In the process, this analysis challenges core assumptions about the conditions in which extraordinary measures become possible, suggesting, in turn, the need for a context-specific understanding of both securitization and the conditions of exceptionalism
American exceptionalism · Business · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Performative utterance · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Securitization · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Peacebuilding and International Security · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · History · Law
Reconceptualizing vaccine nationalism
Progressive and Regressive Securitisation
Global health, planetary health, One Health
State disinformation
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the Covid-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance
Disembodiment and Delusion in the Time of Covid-19
Covid-19 and the Limits of Critical Security Theory
When a Liberal Use of Metaphor Is Really a Conservative One
Reframing robustness, reclaiming politics
Introduction
Emergency
Covid-19 contact-tracing apps and the public/private co-production of security
Visualising the Covid-19 pandemic through tropes
Irregular and Infectious? Covid‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe
What can IR learn from disability studies? Debility, capacity and power in the case of Covid-19
Regulating foreign land purchases in Japan
Contribuições dos estudos sociais da ciência e tecnologia para pensar as paisagens multiespécies em tempos de pandemia
How governance shaped military responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
Securitisation, Scapegoat, Identity Politics
Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation
Bordering
Why do individuals in democratic societies support stringent policies? A narrative policy framework analysis
Hierarchies of Heroism
We are at war
The pandemic sovereign
Sounds of (In)Security
Las ciudades Latinoamericanas en pandemia
Fighting the Pandemic with 'Shields
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic
Transformations of transnational care in times of the pandemic
HIV/Aids in China and India
The threat of thinking in threats
Governing Borderless Threats
Virus Alert
Political Theology
The securitisation of pandemic influenza
Ebola, Disease-Control, and the Security Council
Viral borders
Brazil’s war on Covid-19
States of Exception on the Mexico?U.S. Border
Environment and security
Covid-19 and emergency eLearning
The International Health Regulations, Covid-19, and bordering practices
Covid-19 and privacy in the European Union
Global Bioheroes
Securitizing Zika
Politics, security, theory
Exploring the Construction of Threats
Environmental security and climate change
Guantánamo Bay and the Annihilation of the Exception
Securitisation and ‘Riskification’
The Question of the Limit
The Problem with Normality
Blair's Africa
Dilemmas of securitization and health risk management in the People's Republic of China
Securitization of infectious diseases in Vietnam
Haggling over viruses
Security and the problem of context
The pharmaceuticalisation of security
HIV/Aids and the Changing Landscape of War in Africa
Securitization of the Covid-19 pandemic by metaphoric discourse during the state of emergency in Hungary
The race for Ebola drugs
Politics in the hot zone
Ebola and the production of neglect in global health
Is Pandemic Flu a Security Threat
Aids and International Security
Commentary
Morality of Security
Securitization Theory
Global Health Security
The Chronicle of a Disease Foretold
Securitization and Risk at the EU Border
Should HIV/Aids Be Securitized? The Ethical Dilemmas of Linking HIV/Aids and Security
Words, Images, Enemies
The Renaissance of Security Studies
From Threat to Risk? Exceptionalism and Logics of Health Security
Minding Exceptions
Immigration and the politics of security
Epidemic Disease and National Security
The Three Faces of Securitization
Securitization and the Construction of Security
Towards a Theory of Securitization
Security and Immigration
Governing Terrorism Through Risk
Contagious
A pandemia de Covid-19
Covid-19, Public Authority and Enforcement
Aids, Security, Biopolitics
Securitization as political theory
Global Health and International Relations
Securitizing infectious disease
HIV/Aids and security
HIV/Aids and security
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |