Lene Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lene Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lene |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7918-3943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 854 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo
The war in Syria has been communicated to global audiences through images of dead and injured children, decapitated and tortured bodies, and ruined cities. The article shows how news media coverage of the war's impact on the city of Aleppo invoked a Gothic tradition. Drawing on Kristeva and Freud's concepts of the abject and the uncanny, the article argues that the Gothic tradition can further International Relations research on the constitution …
National and Post-National Performances at the Venice Biennale: Site-specific Seeing through the Photo Essay
This article makes three contributions to research on visuality and international relations. First, it provides a theoretical framework through which sites and their politics can be understood. Sites are places where certain objects and structures are shown and engaged with. Visitors to sites experience them visually and bodily and visiting sites is a social process. Second, the article introduces the format of the photo essay as an epistemology …
The visual international politics of the European refugee crisis: Tragedy, humanitarianism, borders
The European refugee crisis has been communicated visually through images such as those of Alan Kurdi lying dead on the beach, by body bags on the harbor front of Lampedusa, by people walking through Europe and by border guards and fences. This article examines the broader visual environment within which EU policy-making took place from October 2013 to October 2015. It identifies ‘tragedy’ as the key term used by the EU to explain its actions and…
Are ‘core’ feminist critiques of securitization theory racist? A reply to Alison Howell and Melanie Richter-Montpetit
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…
Images, emotions, and international politics: The death of Alan Kurdi
How are images, emotions, and international politics connected? This article develops a theoretical framework contributing to visuality and emotions research in International Relations. Correcting the understanding that images cause particular emotional responses, this article claims that emotionally laden responses to images should be seen as performed in foreign policy discourses. We theorise images as objects of interpretation and contestation…
Reading comics for the field of International Relations: Theory, method and the Bosnian War
This article draws attention to a medium that has escaped the attention of International Relations scholars: comics. Comics are combinations of text and drawings and they come in a variety of formats: as newspaper strips, as stories printed in magazines and as long narratives presented in free-standing books. Comics have been central to how generations of children have encountered foreign places and comics artists have successfully captured publi…
How images make world politics: International icons and the case of Abu Ghraib
This article introduces international icons to the field of International Relations. International icons are freestanding images that are widely circulated, recognised, and emotionally responded to. International icons come in the form of foreign policy icons familiar to a specific domestic audience, regional icons, and global icons. Icons do not speak foreign policy in and of themselves rather their meaning is constituted in discourse. Images ri…
Debating the identity of IR: Concluding reflections
Security, Conflict, and Militarization
This article investigates how “security” is imbued with gender and tries to provide an account of the core academic and political dynamics that arise when “gender” and “security” are combined. It begins with a section on the political ambiguities and dynamics that surround “security” and explains how combining gender and security summons some of the dichotomies of political life. This is followed by a discussion on the primary ways that gender an…
The end of International Relations theory
With a view to providing contextual background for the Special Issue, this opening article analyses several dimensions of ‘The end of International Relations theory?’ It opens with a consideration of the status of different types of theory. Thereafter, we look at the proliferation of theories that has taken place since the emergence of the third/fourth debate. The coexistence and competition between an ever-greater number of theories begs the que…
Shopping and Insecurity: Visualizing the Aid/Other Nexus
That the phenomenon of Brand Aid—that is, the “combined meaning of ‘aid to brands’ and ‘brands that provide aid'” (Richey and Ponte :10)—sits firmly at the intersection of international political economy, global health-care policies, and marketing, is powerfully brought out by Lisa Richey and Stefano Ponte in their important book, Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World, as well as by the other contributions to this Forum. One idea that the bo…
Reconstructing desecuritisation: The normative-political in the Copenhagen School and directions for how to apply it
The concept of desecuritisation – the move of an issue out of the sphere of security – has been the subject of heated international political theory debate and adopted in case studies across a range of sectors and settings. What unites the political theory and the applied literature is a concern with the normative-political potential of desecuritisation. This article documents the political status and content of desecuritisation through four read…
The politics of securitization and the Muhammad cartoon crisis: A post-structuralist perspective
A broad array of authors and schools have influenced Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver’s formulation of securitization theory, including John L. Austin, Jacques Derrida and Carl Schmitt. This article draws attention to and strengthens the post-structuralist elements in the writings of Buzan and Wæver, as this part of the theory has received less attention than those attributable to Schmitt and Austin. Starting from securitization theory as developed by B…
A Research Agenda on Feminist Texts and the Gendered Constitution of International Politics in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
This article starts from two interventions made at the 2008 Millennium Roundtable Discussion on Gender and International Relations: Vivienne Jabri’s suggestion that feminist IR might benefit from a closer engagement with the constitution of ‘the international’ and ‘the political’ in feminist texts and Christine Sylvester’s call for incorporating ‘difficult feminisms’ that challenge dominant understandings of which political and analytical perspec…
Theorizing the image for Security Studies: Visual securitization and the Muhammad Cartoon Crisis
This article provides a framework for the study of visual securitization, that is, when images constitute something or someone as threatened and in need of immediate defense or when securitizing actors argue that images ‘speak security’. To study security politics is to focus on the public constitution of threats and dangers; to study visual securitization, therefore, requires an analysis not just of the image as a free-standing entity, but of th…
Beyond The Evolution of International Security Studies
This article provides a reply to the other contributions to this special section of Security Dialogue on The Evolution of International Security Studies. Our response cuts across the special section as a whole, focusing on the following questions: What does it mean to take a critical stance towards the history of international security studies? Does micro-sociology provide the way forward? How do the main analytical distinctions laid out in The E…
The Evolution of International Security Studies
International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which a…
Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School
This article is devoted to an analysis of cyber security, a concept that arrived on the post-Cold War agenda in response to a mixture of technological innovations and changing geopolitical conditions. Adopting the framework of securitization theory, the article theorizes cyber security as a distinct sector with a particular constellation of threats and referent objects. It is held that “network security” and “individual security” are significant …
From Camps to Conversations in Critical Security Studies
The article reviews the book "Critical Approaches to International Security," by Karin M. Fierke
Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma by Paul Roe
Security as practice: Discourse analysis and the Bosnian war
"This text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Nature and Nature Values in Organic Agriculture. An Analysis of Contested Concepts and Values Among Different Actors in Organic Farming
From Bentham to Bush: Surveillance, Security and the Quest for Visibility
Køn, nation, sikkerhed og massevoldtægterne i Bosnien
Voldtægter var et væsentligt led i krigsførelsen i Bosnien, ikke mindst fordi de rettede sig mod både den nationale og den kønslige identitet. I kølvandet fulgte en fortolkningsmæssig og politisk debat om Vestens sikkerhedspolitiske ansvar
The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School
Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School
This article is devoted to an analysis of cyber security, a concept that arrived on the post-Cold War agenda in response to a mixture of technological innovations and changing geopolitical conditions. Adopting the framework of securitization theory, the article theorizes cyber security as a distinct sector with a particular constellation of threats and referent objects. It is held that “network security” and “individual security” are significant …
Theorizing the image for Security Studies: Visual securitization and the Muhammad Cartoon Crisis
This article provides a framework for the study of visual securitization, that is, when images constitute something or someone as threatened and in need of immediate defense or when securitizing actors argue that images ‘speak security’. To study security politics is to focus on the public constitution of threats and dangers; to study visual securitization, therefore, requires an analysis not just of the image as a free-standing entity, but of th…
Images, emotions, and international politics: The death of Alan Kurdi
How are images, emotions, and international politics connected? This article develops a theoretical framework contributing to visuality and emotions research in International Relations. Correcting the understanding that images cause particular emotional responses, this article claims that emotionally laden responses to images should be seen as performed in foreign policy discourses. We theorise images as objects of interpretation and contestation…
Gender, Nation, Rape: Bosnia and the Construction of Security
The mass rapes in Bosnia brought gendered security problems onto the international agenda to an unprecedented extent. This article examines the debate surrounding whether these rapes should be characterized as a security problem which warranted international attention and possibly intervention. This debate evolved around the question whether wartime rape should be understood as an individual risk or a collective security problem;and whether it sh…
The politics of securitization and the Muhammad cartoon crisis: A post-structuralist perspective
A broad array of authors and schools have influenced Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver’s formulation of securitization theory, including John L. Austin, Jacques Derrida and Carl Schmitt. This article draws attention to and strengthens the post-structuralist elements in the writings of Buzan and Wæver, as this part of the theory has received less attention than those attributable to Schmitt and Austin. Starting from securitization theory as developed by B…
The end of International Relations theory
With a view to providing contextual background for the Special Issue, this opening article analyses several dimensions of ‘The end of International Relations theory?’ It opens with a consideration of the status of different types of theory. Thereafter, we look at the proliferation of theories that has taken place since the emergence of the third/fourth debate. The coexistence and competition between an ever-greater number of theories begs the que…
How images make world politics: International icons and the case of Abu Ghraib
This article introduces international icons to the field of International Relations. International icons are freestanding images that are widely circulated, recognised, and emotionally responded to. International icons come in the form of foreign policy icons familiar to a specific domestic audience, regional icons, and global icons. Icons do not speak foreign policy in and of themselves rather their meaning is constituted in discourse. Images ri…
Reconstructing desecuritisation: The normative-political in the Copenhagen School and directions for how to apply it
The concept of desecuritisation – the move of an issue out of the sphere of security – has been the subject of heated international political theory debate and adopted in case studies across a range of sectors and settings. What unites the political theory and the applied literature is a concern with the normative-political potential of desecuritisation. This article documents the political status and content of desecuritisation through four read…
The visual international politics of the European refugee crisis: Tragedy, humanitarianism, borders
The European refugee crisis has been communicated visually through images such as those of Alan Kurdi lying dead on the beach, by body bags on the harbor front of Lampedusa, by people walking through Europe and by border guards and fences. This article examines the broader visual environment within which EU policy-making took place from October 2013 to October 2015. It identifies ‘tragedy’ as the key term used by the EU to explain its actions and…
Reading comics for the field of International Relations: Theory, method and the Bosnian War
This article draws attention to a medium that has escaped the attention of International Relations scholars: comics. Comics are combinations of text and drawings and they come in a variety of formats: as newspaper strips, as stories printed in magazines and as long narratives presented in free-standing books. Comics have been central to how generations of children have encountered foreign places and comics artists have successfully captured publi…
The Myths of Europe: Legitimacy, Community and the ‘Crisis’ of the EU
The current debate over the ‘crisis’ of the EU has often been linked with criticisms of functionalism. From both a liberal‐political and a romantic position, functionalism has been charged with paying inadequate attention to questions of legitimacy and identity ‐ and particularly to the importance of myth ‐ in political community. For the romantic position, the functionalist project could succeed so long it did not enter the realm of national myt…
A Case for Seduction: Evaluating the Poststructuralist Conceptualization of Security
This paper argues that the field of security studies would benefit from engaging more closely with the poststructuralist writings on security than has previously been the case. Poststructuralism advocates a position different from both the traditional realist and idealist perspectives in IR and offers important insights on the construction of the national-international dichotomy, the relationship between national identity and security politics, t…
Are ‘core’ feminist critiques of securitization theory racist? A reply to Alison Howell and Melanie Richter-Montpetit
Slovenian Identity: State-Building on the Balkan Border
is one of the new countries that has appeared from the ashes of Yugoslavia. A driving force in bringing about the collapse of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1991, the former republic has, despite this role as the agent provocateur, been the one least affected by Yugoslavia's dissolution. When declared its independence in June 1991, it was attacked by or Yugoslavia was defended by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in the Ten Days' War, but the leaders…
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…
Past as Preface: Civilizational Politics and the `Third' Balkan War
The concept of civilization has gained political as well as theoretical attention in the 1990s owing to Samuel P. Huntington's influential thesis about civilizational conflicts being the new conflict formation of the post-Cold War era. It is the aim of this article to problematize Huntington's claim that one particular reading of the Bosnian War follows from adopting a civilizational optic. Huntington argues that the war took place between three …
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo
The war in Syria has been communicated to global audiences through images of dead and injured children, decapitated and tortured bodies, and ruined cities. The article shows how news media coverage of the war's impact on the city of Aleppo invoked a Gothic tradition. Drawing on Kristeva and Freud's concepts of the abject and the uncanny, the article argues that the Gothic tradition can further International Relations research on the constitution …
National and Post-National Performances at the Venice Biennale: Site-specific Seeing through the Photo Essay
This article makes three contributions to research on visuality and international relations. First, it provides a theoretical framework through which sites and their politics can be understood. Sites are places where certain objects and structures are shown and engaged with. Visitors to sites experience them visually and bodily and visiting sites is a social process. Second, the article introduces the format of the photo essay as an epistemology …
A Research Agenda on Feminist Texts and the Gendered Constitution of International Politics in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
This article starts from two interventions made at the 2008 Millennium Roundtable Discussion on Gender and International Relations: Vivienne Jabri’s suggestion that feminist IR might benefit from a closer engagement with the constitution of ‘the international’ and ‘the political’ in feminist texts and Christine Sylvester’s call for incorporating ‘difficult feminisms’ that challenge dominant understandings of which political and analytical perspec…
Beyond The Evolution of International Security Studies
This article provides a reply to the other contributions to this special section of Security Dialogue on The Evolution of International Security Studies. Our response cuts across the special section as a whole, focusing on the following questions: What does it mean to take a critical stance towards the history of international security studies? Does micro-sociology provide the way forward? How do the main analytical distinctions laid out in The E…
Nature and Nature Values in Organic Agriculture. An Analysis of Contested Concepts and Values Among Different Actors in Organic Farming
An Introduction to Gender and International Relations in a Nordic Context
Nuclear Weapons after Deterrence
Slovenian Identity: State-Building on the Balkan Border
is one of the new countries that has appeared from the ashes of Yugoslavia. A driving force in bringing about the collapse of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1991, the former republic has, despite this role as the agent provocateur, been the one least affected by Yugoslavia's dissolution. When declared its independence in June 1991, it was attacked by or Yugoslavia was defended by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in the Ten Days' War, but the leaders…
A Case for Seduction: Evaluating the Poststructuralist Conceptualization of Security
This paper argues that the field of security studies would benefit from engaging more closely with the poststructuralist writings on security than has previously been the case. Poststructuralism advocates a position different from both the traditional realist and idealist perspectives in IR and offers important insights on the construction of the national-international dichotomy, the relationship between national identity and security politics, t…
The Myths of Europe: Legitimacy, Community and the ‘Crisis’ of the EU
The current debate over the ‘crisis’ of the EU has often been linked with criticisms of functionalism. From both a liberal‐political and a romantic position, functionalism has been charged with paying inadequate attention to questions of legitimacy and identity ‐ and particularly to the importance of myth ‐ in political community. For the romantic position, the functionalist project could succeed so long it did not enter the realm of national myt…
Gender, Nation, Rape: Bosnia and the Construction of Security
The mass rapes in Bosnia brought gendered security problems onto the international agenda to an unprecedented extent. This article examines the debate surrounding whether these rapes should be characterized as a security problem which warranted international attention and possibly intervention. This debate evolved around the question whether wartime rape should be understood as an individual risk or a collective security problem;and whether it sh…
The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School
Past as Preface: Civilizational Politics and the `Third' Balkan War
The concept of civilization has gained political as well as theoretical attention in the 1990s owing to Samuel P. Huntington's influential thesis about civilizational conflicts being the new conflict formation of the post-Cold War era. It is the aim of this article to problematize Huntington's claim that one particular reading of the Bosnian War follows from adopting a civilizational optic. Huntington argues that the war took place between three …
Feminism in the Fascist Utopia: Gender and world order in Starship Troopers
An Introduction to Gender and International Relations in a Nordic Context
Viewpoints
Køn, nation, sikkerhed og massevoldtægterne i Bosnien
Voldtægter var et væsentligt led i krigsførelsen i Bosnien, ikke mindst fordi de rettede sig mod både den nationale og den kønslige identitet. I kølvandet fulgte en fortolkningsmæssig og politisk debat om Vestens sikkerhedspolitiske ansvar
Domestic Opinion and Identity Politics
From Bentham to Bush: Surveillance, Security and the Quest for Visibility
Security as practice: Discourse analysis and the Bosnian war
"This text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Nature and Nature Values in Organic Agriculture. An Analysis of Contested Concepts and Values Among Different Actors in Organic Farming
Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma by Paul Roe
From Camps to Conversations in Critical Security Studies
The article reviews the book "Critical Approaches to International Security," by Karin M. Fierke
The Evolution of International Security Studies
International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which a…
Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School
This article is devoted to an analysis of cyber security, a concept that arrived on the post-Cold War agenda in response to a mixture of technological innovations and changing geopolitical conditions. Adopting the framework of securitization theory, the article theorizes cyber security as a distinct sector with a particular constellation of threats and referent objects. It is held that “network security” and “individual security” are significant …
Beyond The Evolution of International Security Studies
This article provides a reply to the other contributions to this special section of Security Dialogue on The Evolution of International Security Studies. Our response cuts across the special section as a whole, focusing on the following questions: What does it mean to take a critical stance towards the history of international security studies? Does micro-sociology provide the way forward? How do the main analytical distinctions laid out in The E…
The politics of securitization and the Muhammad cartoon crisis: A post-structuralist perspective
A broad array of authors and schools have influenced Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver’s formulation of securitization theory, including John L. Austin, Jacques Derrida and Carl Schmitt. This article draws attention to and strengthens the post-structuralist elements in the writings of Buzan and Wæver, as this part of the theory has received less attention than those attributable to Schmitt and Austin. Starting from securitization theory as developed by B…
A Research Agenda on Feminist Texts and the Gendered Constitution of International Politics in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
This article starts from two interventions made at the 2008 Millennium Roundtable Discussion on Gender and International Relations: Vivienne Jabri’s suggestion that feminist IR might benefit from a closer engagement with the constitution of ‘the international’ and ‘the political’ in feminist texts and Christine Sylvester’s call for incorporating ‘difficult feminisms’ that challenge dominant understandings of which political and analytical perspec…
Theorizing the image for Security Studies: Visual securitization and the Muhammad Cartoon Crisis
This article provides a framework for the study of visual securitization, that is, when images constitute something or someone as threatened and in need of immediate defense or when securitizing actors argue that images ‘speak security’. To study security politics is to focus on the public constitution of threats and dangers; to study visual securitization, therefore, requires an analysis not just of the image as a free-standing entity, but of th…
Reconstructing desecuritisation: The normative-political in the Copenhagen School and directions for how to apply it
The concept of desecuritisation – the move of an issue out of the sphere of security – has been the subject of heated international political theory debate and adopted in case studies across a range of sectors and settings. What unites the political theory and the applied literature is a concern with the normative-political potential of desecuritisation. This article documents the political status and content of desecuritisation through four read…
Security, Conflict, and Militarization
This article investigates how “security” is imbued with gender and tries to provide an account of the core academic and political dynamics that arise when “gender” and “security” are combined. It begins with a section on the political ambiguities and dynamics that surround “security” and explains how combining gender and security summons some of the dichotomies of political life. This is followed by a discussion on the primary ways that gender an…
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