Norma Rossi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4384544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norma Rossi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norma |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossi |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5825-5047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
Populism without a people: Neoliberal populism and the rise of the Italian far right
While populism is often understood as a reaction to neoliberalism, this paper investigates neoliberalism as a host ideology of populism. Building on Wendy Brown, I argue that the populist, Italian 5 Star Movement (5SM) conforms to neoliberalism’s normative reason. Rather than democratic, this form of neoliberal populism unravels the collective and political body of the people, reducing it to an uninformed mass to be directed by technocratic means…
A true crime story: The role of space, time, and identity in narrating criminal authority
This article presents a theoretical and methodological argument for employing a narrative-based approach to explore criminal organisations’ (COs) claims to political authority, accompanied by an empirical example. International Relations scholarship is increasingly interested in the role narratives play in political meaning-making processes, with violent non-state actors (VNSAs) beginning to occupy a central space in such investigations. This wor…
Introduction: Political subjectivity in times of crisis
Modernity is often understood as a time of crisis. Health, humanitarian, economic, and environmental crises are just some crises characterizing the present. This special issue investigates these interwoven crises by investigating the subject in crisis, as making sense of how our worlds are changing requires interrogating how we ourselves are changing. How can we apprehend the subject and forms of subjectivities implied when evoking specific crise…
From subject to project: Crisis and the transformation of subjectivity in the armed forces
Historically, the army has been one of the main fabrics of modern subjectivity. The work of Michel Foucault, specifically, explored how the armed forces have been a central site in the production of such subjectivities via modes of discipline and biopower. Building on Byung-Chul Han’s examination of neoliberalism, we argue that the new subject of the army is no longer solely a disciplinary/biopolitical subject but increasingly a psychopolitical p…
The Value of Further Education in Security Sector Reform: Autoethnographic Reflections from Palestine, Lebanon, and Georgia
Although Security Sector Reform (SSR) is widely regarded as a vital element of peacebuilding, its implementation has remained largely disappointing. In recent years, the academic literature has witnessed an intensifying debate on the need to close the policy-implementation gap in SSR. This article contributes to the debate on the need for a second generation SSR by exploring the value of further education (FE) programmes through an autoethnograph…
Remote warfare as “security of being”: Reading security force assistance as an ontological security routine
This article analyses remote warfare from an ontological security perspective, arguing that remote warfare needs to be understood as a response to states’ internal self-identity needs. We develop this claim by analysing an emerging aspect of remote warfare: Security Force Assistance (SFA). SFA is aimed at building up the security forces of partners, sharing best practice, assisting in security sector reform, fostering collaboration, and overall c…
The Perils of Medicalizing Conflict Resolution
Security and Global Affairs
Overlooked Enemies of Peace: Understanding and Countering Criminalised Power Structures
Unnoticed for a long time, or frequently treated as irrelevant, Criminalised Power Structures (CPSs) have nevertheless been key obstacles to peace and stability across the world. As the study of In
Breaking the nexus: Conceptualising ‘illicit sovereigns’
The present contribution critically engages with the theoretical and empirical nexus between ‘crime’ and ‘terrorism’. The Crime--Terror Nexus is understood first as the increasing cooperation between terrorist groups and criminal organisations, and second as the merging of terror/crime identities. I argue that the concept of the Crime--Terror Nexus reifies the identities of both criminal and terrorist organisations by pre-assigning exclusively ec…
Remote warfare as “security of being”: Reading security force assistance as an ontological security routine
This article analyses remote warfare from an ontological security perspective, arguing that remote warfare needs to be understood as a response to states’ internal self-identity needs. We develop this claim by analysing an emerging aspect of remote warfare: Security Force Assistance (SFA). SFA is aimed at building up the security forces of partners, sharing best practice, assisting in security sector reform, fostering collaboration, and overall c…
Populism without a people: Neoliberal populism and the rise of the Italian far right
While populism is often understood as a reaction to neoliberalism, this paper investigates neoliberalism as a host ideology of populism. Building on Wendy Brown, I argue that the populist, Italian 5 Star Movement (5SM) conforms to neoliberalism’s normative reason. Rather than democratic, this form of neoliberal populism unravels the collective and political body of the people, reducing it to an uninformed mass to be directed by technocratic means…
From subject to project: Crisis and the transformation of subjectivity in the armed forces
Historically, the army has been one of the main fabrics of modern subjectivity. The work of Michel Foucault, specifically, explored how the armed forces have been a central site in the production of such subjectivities via modes of discipline and biopower. Building on Byung-Chul Han’s examination of neoliberalism, we argue that the new subject of the army is no longer solely a disciplinary/biopolitical subject but increasingly a psychopolitical p…
A true crime story: The role of space, time, and identity in narrating criminal authority
This article presents a theoretical and methodological argument for employing a narrative-based approach to explore criminal organisations’ (COs) claims to political authority, accompanied by an empirical example. International Relations scholarship is increasingly interested in the role narratives play in political meaning-making processes, with violent non-state actors (VNSAs) beginning to occupy a central space in such investigations. This wor…
Introduction: Political subjectivity in times of crisis
Modernity is often understood as a time of crisis. Health, humanitarian, economic, and environmental crises are just some crises characterizing the present. This special issue investigates these interwoven crises by investigating the subject in crisis, as making sense of how our worlds are changing requires interrogating how we ourselves are changing. How can we apprehend the subject and forms of subjectivities implied when evoking specific crise…
Breaking the nexus: Conceptualising ‘illicit sovereigns’
The present contribution critically engages with the theoretical and empirical nexus between ‘crime’ and ‘terrorism’. The Crime--Terror Nexus is understood first as the increasing cooperation between terrorist groups and criminal organisations, and second as the merging of terror/crime identities. I argue that the concept of the Crime--Terror Nexus reifies the identities of both criminal and terrorist organisations by pre-assigning exclusively ec…
Breaking the nexus: Conceptualising ‘illicit sovereigns’
The present contribution critically engages with the theoretical and empirical nexus between ‘crime’ and ‘terrorism’. The Crime--Terror Nexus is understood first as the increasing cooperation between terrorist groups and criminal organisations, and second as the merging of terror/crime identities. I argue that the concept of the Crime--Terror Nexus reifies the identities of both criminal and terrorist organisations by pre-assigning exclusively ec…
Overlooked Enemies of Peace: Understanding and Countering Criminalised Power Structures
Unnoticed for a long time, or frequently treated as irrelevant, Criminalised Power Structures (CPSs) have nevertheless been key obstacles to peace and stability across the world. As the study of In
The Perils of Medicalizing Conflict Resolution
Security and Global Affairs
The Value of Further Education in Security Sector Reform: Autoethnographic Reflections from Palestine, Lebanon, and Georgia
Although Security Sector Reform (SSR) is widely regarded as a vital element of peacebuilding, its implementation has remained largely disappointing. In recent years, the academic literature has witnessed an intensifying debate on the need to close the policy-implementation gap in SSR. This article contributes to the debate on the need for a second generation SSR by exploring the value of further education (FE) programmes through an autoethnograph…
Remote warfare as “security of being”: Reading security force assistance as an ontological security routine
This article analyses remote warfare from an ontological security perspective, arguing that remote warfare needs to be understood as a response to states’ internal self-identity needs. We develop this claim by analysing an emerging aspect of remote warfare: Security Force Assistance (SFA). SFA is aimed at building up the security forces of partners, sharing best practice, assisting in security sector reform, fostering collaboration, and overall c…
From subject to project: Crisis and the transformation of subjectivity in the armed forces
Historically, the army has been one of the main fabrics of modern subjectivity. The work of Michel Foucault, specifically, explored how the armed forces have been a central site in the production of such subjectivities via modes of discipline and biopower. Building on Byung-Chul Han’s examination of neoliberalism, we argue that the new subject of the army is no longer solely a disciplinary/biopolitical subject but increasingly a psychopolitical p…
A true crime story: The role of space, time, and identity in narrating criminal authority
This article presents a theoretical and methodological argument for employing a narrative-based approach to explore criminal organisations’ (COs) claims to political authority, accompanied by an empirical example. International Relations scholarship is increasingly interested in the role narratives play in political meaning-making processes, with violent non-state actors (VNSAs) beginning to occupy a central space in such investigations. This wor…
Introduction: Political subjectivity in times of crisis
Modernity is often understood as a time of crisis. Health, humanitarian, economic, and environmental crises are just some crises characterizing the present. This special issue investigates these interwoven crises by investigating the subject in crisis, as making sense of how our worlds are changing requires interrogating how we ourselves are changing. How can we apprehend the subject and forms of subjectivities implied when evoking specific crise…
Populism without a people: Neoliberal populism and the rise of the Italian far right
While populism is often understood as a reaction to neoliberalism, this paper investigates neoliberalism as a host ideology of populism. Building on Wendy Brown, I argue that the populist, Italian 5 Star Movement (5SM) conforms to neoliberalism’s normative reason. Rather than democratic, this form of neoliberal populism unravels the collective and political body of the people, reducing it to an uninformed mass to be directed by technocratic means…
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
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