J M Beier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 41898 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J M Beier |
| NOMBRES | J M |
| APELLIDO | Beier |
| FIRMA | BEIER J M |
| AFILIACIONES | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2346-1630 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Adult Gaze
Young people are often talked about as “the future,” with the dual implication that they will inherit the results of contemporary decision-making and direct policy-making once they reach adulthood. However, it is not only in the future that they will encounter, have to think about, suffer from, and develop expertise in conflict. Building on a growing body of work considering young voices in peace and conflict studies and their participation as fu…
Childing war
What should we make of a warplane as a playground feature or war museums hosting children’s birthday parties? Intuitively, we might expect that weapons of war would be difficult to reconcile with the dominant social imaginary of childhood as a time of innocence and with the usual view of children as cherished objects of protection. And yet, the repurposing of war materiel for play, the billing of military performances as child-friendly leisure ac…
Rights education and the children’s university
Children, childhoods, and security studies
Not the Usual Suspects
Questions prompted by a 2010 U.S. drone strike in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan bring to light an underappreciated dimension of the making of child soldiers. Turning on a readiness to presume some children as threatening when they are held in the gaze of the drone's-eye view and the crosshairs of the gunsight, childhood as a proxy of non-combatant status is at times dismissed or even repudiated, thereby inscribing particular children as combatant…
Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations
That Indigenous diplomacies remain largely unknown to states and to disciplinary International Relations is, ultimately, a matter of choices made by those privileged in terms of the power to (re)produce social facts and common senses. Distinguishing distinct faces of 'not knowing' exposes ontological commitments underwriting the logics of territorially exclusive sovereign power and the knowledge practices of International Relations that, in both …
Introduction to volume 10
This changes things”
Avoidance of civilian casualties increasingly affects the political calculus of legitimacy in armed conflict. "Collateral damage" is a problem that can be managed through the material production of precision, but it is also the case that precision is a problem managed through the cultural production of collateral damage. Bearing decisively on popular perceptions of ethical conduct in recourse to political violence, childhood is an important site …
Exceptional childhood and Covid-19
In the days and weeks following the March 2020 World Health Organization declaration of the global COVID-19 pandemic, a number of national leaders in the Global North, all of them working under unprecedented and extraordinarily challenging circumstances, took time to directly address the children of their respective countries. Besides answering questions about the crisis put to them by their youngest citizens, a recurrent theme on these occasions…
Children, childhoods, and everyday militarisms
Like childhood, thinking critically about militarism can entail a great deal of unlearning before coming to a more nuanced understanding of what lies beyond the signifier. Just as childhoods are multiple, overlapping, contingent, and bound up in many more aspects of our social worlds than is apparent if we look only for the child, so too militarism. The ways in which militarisms intersect childhoods and vice versa, therefore, call us to reflect n…
Cultivating an ethos
Since 2011, the McMaster Children and Youth University has offered free monthly lectures on the campus of McMaster University. Though aimed at children and youth aged seven to fourteen, there are no formal age restrictions and events regularly see attendance by young people beyond both thresholds of this age range. A central aim and guiding principle of the program has been to promote and support participants’ discovery of themselves as acting su…
Ultimate Tests
Whether in the rhetorical strategies of the campaign to ban landlines, appeals for famine relief, or the present historical apex of mass refugee migration, deployed images of abject childhood are central to the visual economies of humanitarian crisis. As the quintessential innocents deemed in need of protection, children are constructed outside of meaningful subjecthood and objectified as the evocative ‘scenery’ of the politics of protection. As …
Implementing children’s right to be heard
A critical challenge for human rights and human security alike turns on diminution of subject audibility and voice and the reduction of rights-bearing subjects to mere referent objects of security. Owing in part to inadequate theorization of child/youth subjecthood, this problem is especially acute where the rights and security of young people are at issue. Though the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child makes specific provision for recovery …
Binding Gestures
In March of 2017, officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security publicly acknowledged a proposed policy of forced separation of unauthorized migrant children from their parents. Conceived as a deterrent to other families that might yet contemplate crossing the U.S. southern border, the proposal sought to formalize and expand on similar practices of deterrence already implemented on a more ad hoc basis. By way of a brief examination of t…
Child Security in Asia
Children, childhoods, and security studies
Children and childhoods have not garnered much attention from either mainstream or critical currents of scholarship in International Relations and Security Studies, notwithstanding the significant ways in which they may be inseparable from the fields’ subject matters, core concepts, and ideas. Addressing this omission is not a matter of simply ‘bringing children in,’ however. Rather, it necessitates first coming to terms with how children are alr…
Shifting the burden
Despite broadening of its boundaries over the past two decades, Security Studies has so far paid very little attention to childhood and its relationship to status quo circulations of power, to children as possessed of bona fide political subjecthood, and to the under-interrogated ideational commitments that have made these exclusions appear relatively unproblematic. In contrast, the rise of resilience thinking across a range of disciplines in rec…
Pathologizing Subjecthoods
Beginning with a recurrent discussion about the choice between two imagined Star Trek technologies, the holodeck and the transporter, this article explores how popular culture can be revealing of ways in which political possibilities are variously made and foreclosed by dint of deeply held but underinterrogated ideational commitments circulating in the mundane and carried forward by what might seem unlikely voices. Tracing a few such commitments …
Critical Studies on Security
Dangerous Terrain
The bases of legitimacy in recourse to war have, in recent years, come to turn vitally on meaningful discrimination between combatants and noncombatants. Concurrently, the remarkable successes of the movement to ban antipersonnel landmines and the follow-on ban on cluster munitions have likewise been predicated on this same arbiter of legitimacy, marking specific kinds of weapons as bad for their inherent indiscriminacy. This article begins by ex…
Grave Misgivings
Days after the December 1890 US Army massacre of Lakota refugees at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, commercial photographer George Trager photographed the Army burial detail as they cleared the site and committed the dead to a mass grave. Widely circulated as post-cards, Trager's photographs merged with a broader colonial narrative, allegorically and cathartically sketching a heroic account of a dire confrontation between 'civilization' and 'savagery…
Outsmarting Technologies
Advanced Colonialism and Pop-Culture Treatments of Indigenous North Americans
If the preceding chapter is not easily reconciled with some readers’ expectations about the Lakota past and present, that is likely because it is quite strikingly at odds with the stock representations of Indigenous people(s) more generally that have long been a staple of Euro-American popular culture. The manner in which most members of the dominating society understand Indigenous North Americans is in the aggregate, as “Indians.” This marker is…
Disciplinary International Relations and Its Disciplined Others
This book has, since its inception, been haunted by three conflicting propositions: that it possibly cannot, perhaps should not, and yet must be written. Each in its turn, these three frets speak to the issues to be taken up in this chapter and the next. As to the first, competency in the area of ethnographic research and writing methods was clearly requisite, but disciplinary International Relations has little to offer in this regard, making it …
International Relations in Uncommon Places
Children, childhoods, and security studies
Children and childhoods have not garnered much attention from either mainstream or critical currents of scholarship in International Relations and Security Studies, notwithstanding the significant ways in which they may be inseparable from the fields’ subject matters, core concepts, and ideas. Addressing this omission is not a matter of simply ‘bringing children in,’ however. Rather, it necessitates first coming to terms with how children are alr…
Discriminating Tastes
Much has been made in recent years of the remarkable technological advances driving what has been described as the latest Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). Typically, however, a disproportionate emphasis on the astounding capabilities of new military hardware has come at the expense of investigations into the socio-political consequences of the transformation of warfare presently underway. Reflection upon the less neglected social aspects of …
Children, childhoods, and everyday militarisms
Like childhood, thinking critically about militarism can entail a great deal of unlearning before coming to a more nuanced understanding of what lies beyond the signifier. Just as childhoods are multiple, overlapping, contingent, and bound up in many more aspects of our social worlds than is apparent if we look only for the child, so too militarism. The ways in which militarisms intersect childhoods and vice versa, therefore, call us to reflect n…
Critical Studies on Security
Ultimate Tests
Whether in the rhetorical strategies of the campaign to ban landlines, appeals for famine relief, or the present historical apex of mass refugee migration, deployed images of abject childhood are central to the visual economies of humanitarian crisis. As the quintessential innocents deemed in need of protection, children are constructed outside of meaningful subjecthood and objectified as the evocative ‘scenery’ of the politics of protection. As …
Dangerous Terrain
The bases of legitimacy in recourse to war have, in recent years, come to turn vitally on meaningful discrimination between combatants and noncombatants. Concurrently, the remarkable successes of the movement to ban antipersonnel landmines and the follow-on ban on cluster munitions have likewise been predicated on this same arbiter of legitimacy, marking specific kinds of weapons as bad for their inherent indiscriminacy. This article begins by ex…
This changes things”
Avoidance of civilian casualties increasingly affects the political calculus of legitimacy in armed conflict. "Collateral damage" is a problem that can be managed through the material production of precision, but it is also the case that precision is a problem managed through the cultural production of collateral damage. Bearing decisively on popular perceptions of ethical conduct in recourse to political violence, childhood is an important site …
Shifting the burden
Despite broadening of its boundaries over the past two decades, Security Studies has so far paid very little attention to childhood and its relationship to status quo circulations of power, to children as possessed of bona fide political subjecthood, and to the under-interrogated ideational commitments that have made these exclusions appear relatively unproblematic. In contrast, the rise of resilience thinking across a range of disciplines in rec…
Grave Misgivings
Days after the December 1890 US Army massacre of Lakota refugees at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, commercial photographer George Trager photographed the Army burial detail as they cleared the site and committed the dead to a mass grave. Widely circulated as post-cards, Trager's photographs merged with a broader colonial narrative, allegorically and cathartically sketching a heroic account of a dire confrontation between 'civilization' and 'savagery…
Outsmarting Technologies
The Globalization of Human Rights
The Globalisation of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these questions is conducted through analysis of rights, both civil and political, and economic and social. Any search for justice is based upon identifying values, including relationships with others that are eventually institutionalized as rights. Such rights become the basis upon which c…
Pathologizing Subjecthoods
Beginning with a recurrent discussion about the choice between two imagined Star Trek technologies, the holodeck and the transporter, this article explores how popular culture can be revealing of ways in which political possibilities are variously made and foreclosed by dint of deeply held but underinterrogated ideational commitments circulating in the mundane and carried forward by what might seem unlikely voices. Tracing a few such commitments …
Becoming Undisciplined
Journal Article Becoming Undisciplined: Toward the Supradisciplinary Study of Security Get access J. Marshall Beier, J. Marshall Beier McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Samantha L. Arnold Samantha L. Arnold York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 41–61, https://doi.org/10.11…
Emailed applications are preferred’
The 1997 Ottawa Convention banning the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel landmines has been widely hailed as a triumph of an emergent global civil society—a claim that has done much to underwrite the legitimacy of the ban, efforts to extend it and ongoing mine action more generally. Transcending limitations of space, a watershed aspect of the mine ban movement was its use of new information and communications technologies to forge…
Canada
On 13 June 2002, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty officially passed into history, removing the most significant legal obstacle to American development and eventual deployment of active
Siting Indiscriminacy
In the mid-1990s, a unique confluence of activists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and governments, unprecedented in the history of arms control, took shape as an international movement to ban antipersonnel (AP) landmines. Widely hailed as a triumph of an emergent global civil society, this hitherto unlikely coalition managed in only a few years to first stigmatize AP landmines as a humanitarian scourge and, ultimately, to parlay this re-p…
Children, childhoods, and security studies
Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations
That Indigenous diplomacies remain largely unknown to states and to disciplinary International Relations is, ultimately, a matter of choices made by those privileged in terms of the power to (re)produce social facts and common senses. Distinguishing distinct faces of 'not knowing' exposes ontological commitments underwriting the logics of territorially exclusive sovereign power and the knowledge practices of International Relations that, in both …
Exceptional childhood and Covid-19
In the days and weeks following the March 2020 World Health Organization declaration of the global COVID-19 pandemic, a number of national leaders in the Global North, all of them working under unprecedented and extraordinarily challenging circumstances, took time to directly address the children of their respective countries. Besides answering questions about the crisis put to them by their youngest citizens, a recurrent theme on these occasions…
Binding Gestures
In March of 2017, officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security publicly acknowledged a proposed policy of forced separation of unauthorized migrant children from their parents. Conceived as a deterrent to other families that might yet contemplate crossing the U.S. southern border, the proposal sought to formalize and expand on similar practices of deterrence already implemented on a more ad hoc basis. By way of a brief examination of t…
Siting Indiscriminacy
In the mid-1990s, a unique confluence of activists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and governments, unprecedented in the history of arms control, took shape as an international movement to ban antipersonnel (AP) landmines. Widely hailed as a triumph of an emergent global civil society, this hitherto unlikely coalition managed in only a few years to first stigmatize AP landmines as a humanitarian scourge and, ultimately, to parlay this re-p…
Beyond Hegemonic State(ment)s of Nature
Among the more enduring oversights and omissions of international relations is its near total neglect of Indigenous peoples.1 In particular, the First Nations of the Americas, ensconced within advanced colonial states, have been accorded almost no attention.2 Critical reflection upon the sources of this lapse gives rise to some important insights into the concealed commitments that underwrite mainstream international relations theory and exert co…
Discriminating Tastes
Much has been made in recent years of the remarkable technological advances driving what has been described as the latest Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). Typically, however, a disproportionate emphasis on the astounding capabilities of new military hardware has come at the expense of investigations into the socio-political consequences of the transformation of warfare presently underway. Reflection upon the less neglected social aspects of …
Emailed applications are preferred’
The 1997 Ottawa Convention banning the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel landmines has been widely hailed as a triumph of an emergent global civil society—a claim that has done much to underwrite the legitimacy of the ban, efforts to extend it and ongoing mine action more generally. Transcending limitations of space, a watershed aspect of the mine ban movement was its use of new information and communications technologies to forge…
Advanced Colonialism and Pop-Culture Treatments of Indigenous North Americans
If the preceding chapter is not easily reconciled with some readers’ expectations about the Lakota past and present, that is likely because it is quite strikingly at odds with the stock representations of Indigenous people(s) more generally that have long been a staple of Euro-American popular culture. The manner in which most members of the dominating society understand Indigenous North Americans is in the aggregate, as “Indians.” This marker is…
Disciplinary International Relations and Its Disciplined Others
This book has, since its inception, been haunted by three conflicting propositions: that it possibly cannot, perhaps should not, and yet must be written. Each in its turn, these three frets speak to the issues to be taken up in this chapter and the next. As to the first, competency in the area of ethnographic research and writing methods was clearly requisite, but disciplinary International Relations has little to offer in this regard, making it …
Travelogues
The near-complete neglect of Indigenous peoples by International Relations is a loose thread that now deserves a few more purposeful tugs. Critical reflection upon the sources of this lapse gives rise to some important insights into the concealed commitments that underwrite mainstream theory and exert considerable authority in defining and delimiting disciplinary problems, prospects, and possibilities. The origins of these conceptual predispositi…
Lakota Lifeways
I begin this chapter knowing that I am about to violate at least the spirit of the commitments I have laid out for myself in the preceding chapters. Still working through a pre-conversational moment, I find that I am obliged to engage in at least some small measure of (re)presentation in making the case for real engagement with Indigenous people’s voices. With the aim of minimizing the violences of this exercise, however, I have chosen not to rel…
Conclusion
In the preceding pages, I have argued that international theory, indeed social theory more generally, is cosmologically inflected in ways that (re)produce the restrictive hegemonic concepts, categories, and commitments of the dominating society. I have pointed out that there are important senses in which it is monological and spoken from positions of conspicuous privilege. I have gone so far as to claim that all theory is violent. And yet I do no…
Revealing the Hegemonologue
My earliest inkling of a personal connection to colonialism came at the age of seven or eight. Enrolled in the Wolf Cubs of Canada (a junior section of the Boy Scouts), I returned from a weekend outing with a comic book that told the tale of how Robert Baden-Powell came to found the World Scouting Movement. During his service in the Boer War, Baden-Powell had enlisted the assistance of boys to scout in support of the British regulars defending Ma…
Emancipatory Violences
Violence is a tricky thing: we see it when we know it, but we do not always know it when we see it. As Johan Galtung has famously argued, it need not be the product of malicious intent; it may as readily be structural in the sense that it is harm that is visited upon others in consequence of the political choices of the comparatively privileged and powerful but is not necessarily an objective of those choices in itself (Galtung 1969). We have see…
Ethnography, Ethics, and Advanced Colonialism
The prejudices and pretensions of disciplinarity and, no less, their colonial complicities, are as discernible in ethnographic representation as in the disciplinary division of knowledge. Ethnographers are often given to referring to those they study as their "subjects." The unreflexive pretension to represent, however, confirms that they are nothing of the sort. The ethnographic voice of the participant-observer is an unsolicited surrogate voice…
Becoming Undisciplined
Journal Article Becoming Undisciplined: Toward the Supradisciplinary Study of Security Get access J. Marshall Beier, J. Marshall Beier McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Samantha L. Arnold Samantha L. Arnold York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 41–61, https://doi.org/10.11…
Canada
On 13 June 2002, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty officially passed into history, removing the most significant legal obstacle to American development and eventual deployment of active
The Globalization of Human Rights
The Globalisation of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these questions is conducted through analysis of rights, both civil and political, and economic and social. Any search for justice is based upon identifying values, including relationships with others that are eventually institutionalized as rights. Such rights become the basis upon which c…
Outsmarting Technologies
Grave Misgivings
Days after the December 1890 US Army massacre of Lakota refugees at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, commercial photographer George Trager photographed the Army burial detail as they cleared the site and committed the dead to a mass grave. Widely circulated as post-cards, Trager's photographs merged with a broader colonial narrative, allegorically and cathartically sketching a heroic account of a dire confrontation between 'civilization' and 'savagery…
Dangerous Terrain
The bases of legitimacy in recourse to war have, in recent years, come to turn vitally on meaningful discrimination between combatants and noncombatants. Concurrently, the remarkable successes of the movement to ban antipersonnel landmines and the follow-on ban on cluster munitions have likewise been predicated on this same arbiter of legitimacy, marking specific kinds of weapons as bad for their inherent indiscriminacy. This article begins by ex…
Critical Studies on Security
Pathologizing Subjecthoods
Beginning with a recurrent discussion about the choice between two imagined Star Trek technologies, the holodeck and the transporter, this article explores how popular culture can be revealing of ways in which political possibilities are variously made and foreclosed by dint of deeply held but underinterrogated ideational commitments circulating in the mundane and carried forward by what might seem unlikely voices. Tracing a few such commitments …
Children, childhoods, and security studies
Children and childhoods have not garnered much attention from either mainstream or critical currents of scholarship in International Relations and Security Studies, notwithstanding the significant ways in which they may be inseparable from the fields’ subject matters, core concepts, and ideas. Addressing this omission is not a matter of simply ‘bringing children in,’ however. Rather, it necessitates first coming to terms with how children are alr…
Shifting the burden
Despite broadening of its boundaries over the past two decades, Security Studies has so far paid very little attention to childhood and its relationship to status quo circulations of power, to children as possessed of bona fide political subjecthood, and to the under-interrogated ideational commitments that have made these exclusions appear relatively unproblematic. In contrast, the rise of resilience thinking across a range of disciplines in rec…
Child Security in Asia
Ultimate Tests
Whether in the rhetorical strategies of the campaign to ban landlines, appeals for famine relief, or the present historical apex of mass refugee migration, deployed images of abject childhood are central to the visual economies of humanitarian crisis. As the quintessential innocents deemed in need of protection, children are constructed outside of meaningful subjecthood and objectified as the evocative ‘scenery’ of the politics of protection. As …
Implementing children’s right to be heard
A critical challenge for human rights and human security alike turns on diminution of subject audibility and voice and the reduction of rights-bearing subjects to mere referent objects of security. Owing in part to inadequate theorization of child/youth subjecthood, this problem is especially acute where the rights and security of young people are at issue. Though the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child makes specific provision for recovery …
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