Christos Boukalas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3431886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christos Boukalas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christos |
| FAMILY NAME | Boukalas |
| SIGNATURE | BOUKALAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9329-4906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A state without a future: Neoliberal despotism, crisis-fighting, and government through fear
This article is a study on the neoliberal state, its relation to time and its ongoing transformation through crisis.It is spurred by two seminal works -Hartog's on historicity and Rosa's on acceleration -that catalogue a collapse of the modern temporality defined by progression from past to future.The article develops this problematic by focusing on the state as a key organiser of social temporalities.As the state has, in the course of the 21st c…
Biosecurity, Economic Collapse, the State to Come: Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond
No future: Pre‐emption, temporal sovereignty and hegemonic implosion
For over a decade now we live under an economic crisis, its metastases, and its effects.Since the turn of the century, we live under recurring security crises and state attempts to prevent them.This article examines the temporal horizons of the strategies the neoliberal state employs to combat the spectre of crisis in its two quintessential fields of action: the economy and security.It notes a pronounced contrast: whereas security strategy is pre…
Sem exceções: Estatismo autoritário. Agamben, Poulantzas e segurança interna
Este artigo descreve e compara duas diferentes formas de compreender o antiterrorismo e a configuração do poder político em seu contexto. Contra o pano de fundo da segurança interna dos EUA, primeiro descreve a tese de Agamben sobre o Estado de exceção permanente. Apesar da sua ressonância nos aspectos-chave da segurança interna, esta tese é considerada analiticamente limitada e teoricamente frágil. Para superar suas deficiências e proporcionar u…
Class war-on-terror: Counterterrorism, accumulation, crisis
This article discusses US counterterrorism from a class perspective. It sees counterterrorism as a state policy with differential effects on different social classes. In doing so, the article starts to address a lacuna in critical studies of counterterrorism, which tend to be rather structural and formal, thus ignoring the pertinence of counterterrorism to the field of social dynamics. To partly rectify this blind spot by addressing some class im…
No exceptions: Authoritarian statism. Agamben, Poulantzas and homeland security
This article outlines and compares two different ways of making sense of counterterrorism and the configuration of political power in its context. Against the backdrop of US homeland security, it first outlines Agamben’s thesis on the permanent state of exception. Despite its resonance with key aspects of homeland security, this thesis is found to be analytically limited and theoretically brittle. To overcome its shortcomings and provide a better…
Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty
Politics as Legal Action/Lawyers as Political Actors: Towards a Reconceptualisation of Cause Lawyering
The 'resolutions movement' - a popular political mobilisation guided by lawyers, and expressed in exclusively legal terms and orientated towards legal objectives - has been an important expression of popular resistance to contemporary US counterterrorism policy. This article uses the resolutions movement as a vehicle for critically evaluating the cause lawyer literature and for reconceptualising 'cause lawyers'. The article discusses two differen…
Government by experts: Counterterrorism intelligence and democratic retreat
The recently retired Homeland Security Advisory System constituted a main means by which the intensity of the terrorist threat was communicated to the United States' public. An examination of its inner workings and its social impact shows the System as part of a modality of government: an encapsulation of intelligence-led governmentality. Informed by the political philosophy of Cornelius Castoriadis, I contextualise this modality as a settling of…
No exceptions: Authoritarian statism. Agamben, Poulantzas and homeland security
This article outlines and compares two different ways of making sense of counterterrorism and the configuration of political power in its context. Against the backdrop of US homeland security, it first outlines Agamben’s thesis on the permanent state of exception. Despite its resonance with key aspects of homeland security, this thesis is found to be analytically limited and theoretically brittle. To overcome its shortcomings and provide a better…
Politics as Legal Action/Lawyers as Political Actors: Towards a Reconceptualisation of Cause Lawyering
The 'resolutions movement' - a popular political mobilisation guided by lawyers, and expressed in exclusively legal terms and orientated towards legal objectives - has been an important expression of popular resistance to contemporary US counterterrorism policy. This article uses the resolutions movement as a vehicle for critically evaluating the cause lawyer literature and for reconceptualising 'cause lawyers'. The article discusses two differen…
Class war-on-terror: Counterterrorism, accumulation, crisis
This article discusses US counterterrorism from a class perspective. It sees counterterrorism as a state policy with differential effects on different social classes. In doing so, the article starts to address a lacuna in critical studies of counterterrorism, which tend to be rather structural and formal, thus ignoring the pertinence of counterterrorism to the field of social dynamics. To partly rectify this blind spot by addressing some class im…
No future: Pre‐emption, temporal sovereignty and hegemonic implosion
For over a decade now we live under an economic crisis, its metastases, and its effects.Since the turn of the century, we live under recurring security crises and state attempts to prevent them.This article examines the temporal horizons of the strategies the neoliberal state employs to combat the spectre of crisis in its two quintessential fields of action: the economy and security.It notes a pronounced contrast: whereas security strategy is pre…
Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty
Government by experts: Counterterrorism intelligence and democratic retreat
The recently retired Homeland Security Advisory System constituted a main means by which the intensity of the terrorist threat was communicated to the United States' public. An examination of its inner workings and its social impact shows the System as part of a modality of government: an encapsulation of intelligence-led governmentality. Informed by the political philosophy of Cornelius Castoriadis, I contextualise this modality as a settling of…
Government by experts: Counterterrorism intelligence and democratic retreat
The recently retired Homeland Security Advisory System constituted a main means by which the intensity of the terrorist threat was communicated to the United States' public. An examination of its inner workings and its social impact shows the System as part of a modality of government: an encapsulation of intelligence-led governmentality. Informed by the political philosophy of Cornelius Castoriadis, I contextualise this modality as a settling of…
Politics as Legal Action/Lawyers as Political Actors: Towards a Reconceptualisation of Cause Lawyering
The 'resolutions movement' - a popular political mobilisation guided by lawyers, and expressed in exclusively legal terms and orientated towards legal objectives - has been an important expression of popular resistance to contemporary US counterterrorism policy. This article uses the resolutions movement as a vehicle for critically evaluating the cause lawyer literature and for reconceptualising 'cause lawyers'. The article discusses two differen…
No exceptions: Authoritarian statism. Agamben, Poulantzas and homeland security
This article outlines and compares two different ways of making sense of counterterrorism and the configuration of political power in its context. Against the backdrop of US homeland security, it first outlines Agamben’s thesis on the permanent state of exception. Despite its resonance with key aspects of homeland security, this thesis is found to be analytically limited and theoretically brittle. To overcome its shortcomings and provide a better…
Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty
Class war-on-terror: Counterterrorism, accumulation, crisis
This article discusses US counterterrorism from a class perspective. It sees counterterrorism as a state policy with differential effects on different social classes. In doing so, the article starts to address a lacuna in critical studies of counterterrorism, which tend to be rather structural and formal, thus ignoring the pertinence of counterterrorism to the field of social dynamics. To partly rectify this blind spot by addressing some class im…
Sem exceções: Estatismo autoritário. Agamben, Poulantzas e segurança interna
Este artigo descreve e compara duas diferentes formas de compreender o antiterrorismo e a configuração do poder político em seu contexto. Contra o pano de fundo da segurança interna dos EUA, primeiro descreve a tese de Agamben sobre o Estado de exceção permanente. Apesar da sua ressonância nos aspectos-chave da segurança interna, esta tese é considerada analiticamente limitada e teoricamente frágil. Para superar suas deficiências e proporcionar u…
No future: Pre‐emption, temporal sovereignty and hegemonic implosion
For over a decade now we live under an economic crisis, its metastases, and its effects.Since the turn of the century, we live under recurring security crises and state attempts to prevent them.This article examines the temporal horizons of the strategies the neoliberal state employs to combat the spectre of crisis in its two quintessential fields of action: the economy and security.It notes a pronounced contrast: whereas security strategy is pre…
Biosecurity, Economic Collapse, the State to Come: Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond
A state without a future: Neoliberal despotism, crisis-fighting, and government through fear
This article is a study on the neoliberal state, its relation to time and its ongoing transformation through crisis.It is spurred by two seminal works -Hartog's on historicity and Rosa's on acceleration -that catalogue a collapse of the modern temporality defined by progression from past to future.The article develops this problematic by focusing on the state as a key organiser of social temporalities.As the state has, in the course of the 21st c…
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