Mark B Salter
Biographic Data
| ID | 246062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark B Salter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark B |
| FAMILY NAME | Salter |
| SIGNATURE | SALTER M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3379-1107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau's Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared
Under conditions of anarchy, the predominant assumption is that scarcity leads to conflict. I contrast traditional Inuit walrus hunt practices to Rousseau's stag hunt to demonstrate how mainstream international relations has it wrong on three counts: (1) radical scarcity need not lead to conflict-prone outcomes, (2) the historical eighteenth-century context of the stag hunt does not prove a predisposition against cooperation, and (3) the conditio…
Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction
This textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, filling a gap in the literature. The second edition has been revised and updated. This textbook is a practical guide to research design in this increasingly established field. Arguing for serious attention to questions of research design and method, the book develops accessible scholarly overviews of key methods used across critical security studies, s…
Race and racism in critical security studies
Reflecting on Security Dialogue at 50
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Security Actor-Network Theory: Revitalizing Securitization Theory with Bruno Latour
Actor-network theory can revitalize securitization theory by refocusing on the creation of connections between issues, publics, and threats. Actor-network theory demonstrates the role that nonhuman actants play in securitization processes in order to avoid prejudging power relations and oversimplifying complex political processes. A radical approach that refigures the notions of agency and politics can reconnect securitization theory to its initi…
Arctic Security, Territory, Population: Canadian Sovereignty and the International
Canada's policies to assert and maintain sovereignty over the High Arctic illuminate both the analytical leverage and blind spots of Foucault's influential Security, Territory, Population (2007) schema for understanding modern governmentality. Governmental logics of security, sovereignty, and biopolitics are contemporaneous and concomitant. The Arctic case demonstrates clearly that the Canadian state messily uses whatever governmental tools are i…
Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology
Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Flanagan 2014), tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, surgeon and womanizer, who is interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II. The POWs are set to work building the Thailand-Burma railway, a project thought to be impossible by the British colonial powers, but completed with brute force and slave labour under Japanese rule in sixteen months dur…
Bruno Latour Encounters International Relations: An Interview
Philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour’s work on actor-network theory (ANT), science and technology studies (STS), and the politics of nature, has made a substantial impact upon the social sciences, and more recently, International Relations (IR). This interview records Latour’s first direct ‘encounter’ with IR, and explores concepts and topics as varied as sovereignty, the State of Nature, globality and spheres, the thought of Carl Schmitt, wa…
Sorrynotsorry: A Well-meaning Response to PTJ
Responding to Patrick T. Jackson’s ‘Must International Studies Be a Science?’ I argue that his proposed division of incommensurable logics of inquiry (aesthetic, normative, empirical and technical) cannot be separated in a meaningful way in the exercise of judgement, and that corporeal and practical skill must be also included
Border security as practice: An agenda for research
The ambition of this special issue is to contribute to contemporary scholarly analyses of border security by bringing more focus onto a specific field of inquiry: the practices of the plurality of power-brokers involved in the securing of borders. Border security is addressed from the angle of the everyday practices of those who are appointed to carry it out; considering border security as practice is essential for shedding light on contemporary …
Commensurability of research methods in critical security studies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCan E. MutluCan E. Mutlu is assistant professor of International Studies at Bilkent University, having received his doctorate at the University of Ottawa. He is a co-editor, with Mark Salter of Research Methods in Critical Security Studies (Routledge 2013 Salter, M. B., and C. E. Mutlu, eds. 2013. Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge.[Crossref] , [Google Sch…
Cold Case: A manifesto for Canadian critical security studies
Critical security studies is an established interest that brings together a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches to bear on the ubiquitous deployment of security discourses and practices in the post-9/11 world. This article maps scholars working in critical security studies in Canada and addresses the potential of collaborative spaces for research of this community, particularly in contradistinction to the Paris and Copenhagen school…
Global Surveillance and Policing
Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction
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Securitisation and Diego Garcia
To advance the on-going debate on Securitisation Theory (ST), we argue that the important questions of audience and attention can be addressed through careful historical study. In an analysis of the securitising moves concerning the American military base on Diego Garcia, we are able to demonstrate that the Copenhagen and Paris Schools are not methodologically incompatible, and empirically that public attention for security issues has a tendency …
Reading Marieke de Goede's Speculative Security
To Make Move and Let Stop: Mobility and the Assemblage of Circulation
The 'mobilities turn' in human geography and cognate disciplines has a natural methodological predisposition towards privileging mobile subjects, or the structures, policies, or authorities that constrain them. The article sets out two additions to mobility studies' theoretical toolbox: the idea of the assemblage and the foregrounding of circulation. The civil aviation sector demonstrates the utility of this frame
Teaching Prisoners' Dilemma Strategies in Survivor: Reality Television in the IR Classroom
The reality television program Survivor is used as a teaching tool for presenting the prisoners' dilemma. Structural similarities between the format of reality television and game theory, rule-bound competitions with clear payoff, enable students to critically examine the strategies that contestants use, providing a clear pedagogical utility
Theory of the: The Suture and Critical Border Studies
Borders are crucial sites of political and spatial contestation: and in an attempt to evade the lamentation for an ideal model of a single line or the empty insistence of the dominance of that line, this article argues that the trope of the suture better captures the dual world-creating functions of the border. By examining the critical border theories of Agamben, Walker, and Galli, the suture better focuses analytical attention towards the role …
Psychoanalytic theory and border security
Freezing is a common sign of panic, a response to accidents or events that overflow our capacity to react. Just as all civil airspace was cleared after the 9/11 attacks, the US-Canada border was also frozen, causing economic slowdowns. Border policies are caught between these two panics: security failures and economic crisis. To escape this paradox, American and Canadian authorities have implemented a series of security measures to make the borde…
The Securitization of the US–Canada Border in American Political Discourse
In this paper, the authors analyze the empirical process of securitization of the US–Canada border and then reflect on the model proposed by the Copenhagen School. We argue that securitization theory oversimplifies the political process of securitizing moves and audience acceptance. Rather than attributing securitization to a singular speaker addressing a specific audience, we present overlapping and ongoing language security games performed by v…
Le Canada et les Roms: Gouverner L’inconnaissable
pour la scurit et la coopration en Europe (OSCE), 2005-2015 Dcennie de l'intgration des Roms . L'accent a t mis sur quatre domaines prioritaires : ducation
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
The Geographical Imaginations of Video Games: Diplomacy,Civilization,America's ArmyandGrand Theft Auto IV
Video games are important sites for critical geopolitics, and this article engages in the analysis of Diplomacy, Civilization, America's Army, and Grand Theft Auto IV in order to understand how the geopolitical imaginary works in popular culture. It makes the argument that the claim to geopolitical and tactical verisimilitude is at odds with the representations of violence and the body in war. It concludes by mapping new directions for the study …
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
Border security as practice: An agenda for research
The ambition of this special issue is to contribute to contemporary scholarly analyses of border security by bringing more focus onto a specific field of inquiry: the practices of the plurality of power-brokers involved in the securing of borders. Border security is addressed from the angle of the everyday practices of those who are appointed to carry it out; considering border security as practice is essential for shedding light on contemporary …
The Global Visa Regime and the Political Technologies of the International Self: Borders, Bodies, Biopolitics
This article examines the micropolitics of the border by tracing the interface between government and individual body. In the first act of confession before the vanguard of governmental machinery, the border examination is crucial to both the operation of the global mobility regime and of sovereign power. The visa and passport systems are tickets that allow temporary and permanent membership in the community, and the border represents the limit o…
To Make Move and Let Stop: Mobility and the Assemblage of Circulation
The 'mobilities turn' in human geography and cognate disciplines has a natural methodological predisposition towards privileging mobile subjects, or the structures, policies, or authorities that constrain them. The article sets out two additions to mobility studies' theoretical toolbox: the idea of the assemblage and the foregrounding of circulation. The civil aviation sector demonstrates the utility of this frame
Securitization and desecuritization: A dramaturgical analysis of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority
When the exception becomes the rule: Borders, Sovereignty, and Citizenship
Borders are a unique political space, in which both sovereignty and citizenship are performed by individuals and sovereigns. Using the work of Agamben and Foucault, this article examines how decisions made at the border alienate each and every traveler crossing the frontier, not simply the ‘sans papiers’ or refugees. The governmentality at play in the border examination relies on an embedded confessionary complex and the ‘neurotic citizen’, as we…
Governmentalities of an Airport: Heterotopia and Confession
Airports are barometers of the balance between mobility and security sought by governments, industry, and the traveling public. This article examines this dynamic at a Canadian international airport, evaluating the legal and practical elements of the policing of movement with this crucial site of politics. Using two under-studied concepts from Foucault, the heterotopia and the confessionary complex, it is illustrated how contemporary aviation sec…
Passports, Mobility, and Security: How smart can the border be
After September 11, 2001, a great deal of public and policy attention has been devoted to border security, passports, and the global mobility regime. This article examines the context of the global regulation of movement of individuals and the evolution of the passport in particular. It then examines the current American border security architecture. The creation of the Homeland Security Department reflects a sea-change in the view of the border,…
Imagining Numbers: Risk, Quantification, and Aviation Security
Aviation security is a vital but under-studied component of contemporary security. This article uses the Foucauldian notion of a 'dispositif of security' to understand how policies, practices, and institutions of aviation security are arranged to surveil, police, and control mobile populations. Moving beyond sovereign accounts of law or disciplinary descriptions of incarceration, the analysis of the dispositif demonstrates the ever-expanding area…
Theory of the: The Suture and Critical Border Studies
Borders are crucial sites of political and spatial contestation: and in an attempt to evade the lamentation for an ideal model of a single line or the empty insistence of the dominance of that line, this article argues that the trope of the suture better captures the dual world-creating functions of the border. By examining the critical border theories of Agamben, Walker, and Galli, the suture better focuses analytical attention towards the role …
Israeli Biopolitics: Closure, Territorialisation and Governmentality in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
This paper argues for the inclusion of biopolitical practices of mobility regulation into study of Israeli control of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). State investment in bifurcated infrastructure, checkpoints, identity documents and a permit system underlines the centrality of closure to occupation. Through closure, Israeli agents of government aim beyond sovereign control of the Israeli-Palestinian border or narrowly conceived securi…
The Securitization of the US–Canada Border in American Political Discourse
In this paper, the authors analyze the empirical process of securitization of the US–Canada border and then reflect on the model proposed by the Copenhagen School. We argue that securitization theory oversimplifies the political process of securitizing moves and audience acceptance. Rather than attributing securitization to a singular speaker addressing a specific audience, we present overlapping and ongoing language security games performed by v…
The Geographical Imaginations of Video Games: Diplomacy,Civilization,America's ArmyandGrand Theft Auto IV
Video games are important sites for critical geopolitics, and this article engages in the analysis of Diplomacy, Civilization, America's Army, and Grand Theft Auto IV in order to understand how the geopolitical imaginary works in popular culture. It makes the argument that the claim to geopolitical and tactical verisimilitude is at odds with the representations of violence and the body in war. It concludes by mapping new directions for the study …
Security Actor-Network Theory: Revitalizing Securitization Theory with Bruno Latour
Actor-network theory can revitalize securitization theory by refocusing on the creation of connections between issues, publics, and threats. Actor-network theory demonstrates the role that nonhuman actants play in securitization processes in order to avoid prejudging power relations and oversimplifying complex political processes. A radical approach that refigures the notions of agency and politics can reconnect securitization theory to its initi…
Bruno Latour Encounters International Relations: An Interview
Philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour’s work on actor-network theory (ANT), science and technology studies (STS), and the politics of nature, has made a substantial impact upon the social sciences, and more recently, International Relations (IR). This interview records Latour’s first direct ‘encounter’ with IR, and explores concepts and topics as varied as sovereignty, the State of Nature, globality and spheres, the thought of Carl Schmitt, wa…
On Exactitude in Disciplinary Science: A Response to the Network Manifesto
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartogra…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Teaching Prisoners' Dilemma Strategies in Survivor: Reality Television in the IR Classroom
The reality television program Survivor is used as a teaching tool for presenting the prisoners' dilemma. Structural similarities between the format of reality television and game theory, rule-bound competitions with clear payoff, enable students to critically examine the strategies that contestants use, providing a clear pedagogical utility
Smart Borders and Mobilities: Spaces, Zones, Enclosures
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau's Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared
Under conditions of anarchy, the predominant assumption is that scarcity leads to conflict. I contrast traditional Inuit walrus hunt practices to Rousseau's stag hunt to demonstrate how mainstream international relations has it wrong on three counts: (1) radical scarcity need not lead to conflict-prone outcomes, (2) the historical eighteenth-century context of the stag hunt does not prove a predisposition against cooperation, and (3) the conditio…
Securitisation and Diego Garcia
To advance the on-going debate on Securitisation Theory (ST), we argue that the important questions of audience and attention can be addressed through careful historical study. In an analysis of the securitising moves concerning the American military base on Diego Garcia, we are able to demonstrate that the Copenhagen and Paris Schools are not methodologically incompatible, and empirically that public attention for security issues has a tendency …
Psychoanalytic theory and border security
Freezing is a common sign of panic, a response to accidents or events that overflow our capacity to react. Just as all civil airspace was cleared after the 9/11 attacks, the US-Canada border was also frozen, causing economic slowdowns. Border policies are caught between these two panics: security failures and economic crisis. To escape this paradox, American and Canadian authorities have implemented a series of security measures to make the borde…
Race and racism in critical security studies
Gaming World Politics: Meaning of Play and World Structure
Journal Article Gaming World Politics: Meaning of Play and World Structure Get access Mark B. Salter Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 453–456, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00145_4.x Published: 05 December 2011
Panarchy and Other Norms for Global Governance: Boutros-Ghali, Rosenau, and Beyond
If humans consciously shape their world of politics, we may benefit from the elucidation of values contained in alternative prescriptions. Values do inform action, not least when they are sanctioned by ratio nales evoking supposedly impersonal forces. The actualizing of values can lead to improvement of our condition or to its deterioration. Thus, we pre fer to choose values carefully insofar as choice may be possible. To comprehend the norms emb…
Panarchy and Other Norms for Global Governance: Boutros-Ghali, Rosenau, and Beyond
If humans consciously shape their world of politics, we may benefit from the elucidation of values contained in alternative prescriptions. Values do inform action, not least when they are sanctioned by ratio nales evoking supposedly impersonal forces. The actualizing of values can lead to improvement of our condition or to its deterioration. Thus, we pre fer to choose values carefully insofar as choice may be possible. To comprehend the norms emb…
Critical Demographies and International Relations
Smart Borders and Mobilities: Spaces, Zones, Enclosures
Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations
From the fourteenth century to the twenty-first, the of the passport adds a vital perspective to the understanding of world politics. Rights of Passage explores shifting notions of sovereignty, citizenship, and identity, as well as changing concerns with issues of race, class, gender, and nation. Ranging from such topics as health, war, and migration to the current mood of vigilant surveillance, the book sheds new light on the role of borders in …
Taking Civilizations Seriously
Passports, Mobility, and Security: How smart can the border be
After September 11, 2001, a great deal of public and policy attention has been devoted to border security, passports, and the global mobility regime. This article examines the context of the global regulation of movement of individuals and the evolution of the passport in particular. It then examines the current American border security architecture. The creation of the Homeland Security Department reflects a sea-change in the view of the border,…
The Global Visa Regime and the Political Technologies of the International Self: Borders, Bodies, Biopolitics
This article examines the micropolitics of the border by tracing the interface between government and individual body. In the first act of confession before the vanguard of governmental machinery, the border examination is crucial to both the operation of the global mobility regime and of sovereign power. The visa and passport systems are tickets that allow temporary and permanent membership in the community, and the border represents the limit o…
On Exactitude in Disciplinary Science: A Response to the Network Manifesto
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartogra…
Governmentalities of an Airport: Heterotopia and Confession
Airports are barometers of the balance between mobility and security sought by governments, industry, and the traveling public. This article examines this dynamic at a Canadian international airport, evaluating the legal and practical elements of the policing of movement with this crucial site of politics. Using two under-studied concepts from Foucault, the heterotopia and the confessionary complex, it is illustrated how contemporary aviation sec…
Political science perspectives on transportation security
Securitization and desecuritization: A dramaturgical analysis of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority
Imagining Numbers: Risk, Quantification, and Aviation Security
Aviation security is a vital but under-studied component of contemporary security. This article uses the Foucauldian notion of a 'dispositif of security' to understand how policies, practices, and institutions of aviation security are arranged to surveil, police, and control mobile populations. Moving beyond sovereign accounts of law or disciplinary descriptions of incarceration, the analysis of the dispositif demonstrates the ever-expanding area…
When the exception becomes the rule: Borders, Sovereignty, and Citizenship
Borders are a unique political space, in which both sovereignty and citizenship are performed by individuals and sovereigns. Using the work of Agamben and Foucault, this article examines how decisions made at the border alienate each and every traveler crossing the frontier, not simply the ‘sans papiers’ or refugees. The governmentality at play in the border examination relies on an embedded confessionary complex and the ‘neurotic citizen’, as we…
Israeli Biopolitics: Closure, Territorialisation and Governmentality in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
This paper argues for the inclusion of biopolitical practices of mobility regulation into study of Israeli control of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). State investment in bifurcated infrastructure, checkpoints, identity documents and a permit system underlines the centrality of closure to occupation. Through closure, Israeli agents of government aim beyond sovereign control of the Israeli-Palestinian border or narrowly conceived securi…
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The Securitization of the US–Canada Border in American Political Discourse
In this paper, the authors analyze the empirical process of securitization of the US–Canada border and then reflect on the model proposed by the Copenhagen School. We argue that securitization theory oversimplifies the political process of securitizing moves and audience acceptance. Rather than attributing securitization to a singular speaker addressing a specific audience, we present overlapping and ongoing language security games performed by v…
Le Canada et les Roms: Gouverner L’inconnaissable
pour la scurit et la coopration en Europe (OSCE), 2005-2015 Dcennie de l'intgration des Roms . L'accent a t mis sur quatre domaines prioritaires : ducation
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
The Geographical Imaginations of Video Games: Diplomacy,Civilization,America's ArmyandGrand Theft Auto IV
Video games are important sites for critical geopolitics, and this article engages in the analysis of Diplomacy, Civilization, America's Army, and Grand Theft Auto IV in order to understand how the geopolitical imaginary works in popular culture. It makes the argument that the claim to geopolitical and tactical verisimilitude is at odds with the representations of violence and the body in war. It concludes by mapping new directions for the study …
Gaming World Politics: Meaning of Play and World Structure
Journal Article Gaming World Politics: Meaning of Play and World Structure Get access Mark B. Salter Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 453–456, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00145_4.x Published: 05 December 2011
Teaching Prisoners' Dilemma Strategies in Survivor: Reality Television in the IR Classroom
The reality television program Survivor is used as a teaching tool for presenting the prisoners' dilemma. Structural similarities between the format of reality television and game theory, rule-bound competitions with clear payoff, enable students to critically examine the strategies that contestants use, providing a clear pedagogical utility
Theory of the: The Suture and Critical Border Studies
Borders are crucial sites of political and spatial contestation: and in an attempt to evade the lamentation for an ideal model of a single line or the empty insistence of the dominance of that line, this article argues that the trope of the suture better captures the dual world-creating functions of the border. By examining the critical border theories of Agamben, Walker, and Galli, the suture better focuses analytical attention towards the role …
Psychoanalytic theory and border security
Freezing is a common sign of panic, a response to accidents or events that overflow our capacity to react. Just as all civil airspace was cleared after the 9/11 attacks, the US-Canada border was also frozen, causing economic slowdowns. Border policies are caught between these two panics: security failures and economic crisis. To escape this paradox, American and Canadian authorities have implemented a series of security measures to make the borde…
Global Surveillance and Policing
Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction
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