Arthur Ganz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Ganz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganz |
| SIGNATURE | GANZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4870-6964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Securitization by dispossession
This article explores how labour regulation functions as a core instrument within Italy’s securitized migration management regime, framing migrants as security threats through processes of material and symbolic dispossession. I introduce the concept of securitization by dispossession to demonstrate how systemic overexploitation, underpayment and structural precarity dispossess migrants and transform them into a distinct and marginalized labour ca…
Ambivalent Technologies
This article critically examines the role of mobile technology, particularly smartphones, in the lives of migrants in the Matamoros camp on the US-Mexico border. Based on fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2023, it highlights the diverse ways migrants engage with technology under conditions of structural subalternity. The analysis moves beyond viewing technology as merely a survival tool or an extension of sovereign control, revealing how smart…
Sounds of (In)Security
This article develops an acoustic approach to (in)security by examining how sound performs relational, affective, and spatial labor in everyday life. Drawing on auto-ethnographic material from Spain's 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, it traces how mundane sonic encounters-from megaphones and hovering drones to nature, neighborly conversations, and coughs-reconfigure space, perception, and bodily orientation. Rather than treating sound as symbolic or repre…
Emotions and securitisation
In this article, I explore how pride as a collective emotion is ontologically bound to the securitisation of energy and put forward an innovative method that engages materiality and discourse in securitisation theory. I examine the case of energy securitisation in Azerbaijan to show that collective pride is anchored to materialisations and reiterative identity discourses that stick to energy sites and align with the nation in ways that fit with t…
Shaw on Dickens
Emotions and securitisation
In this article, I explore how pride as a collective emotion is ontologically bound to the securitisation of energy and put forward an innovative method that engages materiality and discourse in securitisation theory. I examine the case of energy securitisation in Azerbaijan to show that collective pride is anchored to materialisations and reiterative identity discourses that stick to energy sites and align with the nation in ways that fit with t…
Shaw on Dickens
Emotions and securitisation
In this article, I explore how pride as a collective emotion is ontologically bound to the securitisation of energy and put forward an innovative method that engages materiality and discourse in securitisation theory. I examine the case of energy securitisation in Azerbaijan to show that collective pride is anchored to materialisations and reiterative identity discourses that stick to energy sites and align with the nation in ways that fit with t…
Securitization by dispossession
This article explores how labour regulation functions as a core instrument within Italy’s securitized migration management regime, framing migrants as security threats through processes of material and symbolic dispossession. I introduce the concept of securitization by dispossession to demonstrate how systemic overexploitation, underpayment and structural precarity dispossess migrants and transform them into a distinct and marginalized labour ca…
Ambivalent Technologies
This article critically examines the role of mobile technology, particularly smartphones, in the lives of migrants in the Matamoros camp on the US-Mexico border. Based on fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2023, it highlights the diverse ways migrants engage with technology under conditions of structural subalternity. The analysis moves beyond viewing technology as merely a survival tool or an extension of sovereign control, revealing how smart…
Sounds of (In)Security
This article develops an acoustic approach to (in)security by examining how sound performs relational, affective, and spatial labor in everyday life. Drawing on auto-ethnographic material from Spain's 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, it traces how mundane sonic encounters-from megaphones and hovering drones to nature, neighborly conversations, and coughs-reconfigure space, perception, and bodily orientation. Rather than treating sound as symbolic or repre…
Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Everyday life (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)