J Huysmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 65633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Huysmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Huysmans |
| SIGNATURE | HUYSMANS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7265-018X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1356 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
On Transversality: For a Reproblematization of the International in IPS
In this article, we invest in the conceptual development of transversality to establish it as the key analytical tool for examining the international from the perspective of international political sociology. We engage in this work for two main reasons. First, to strengthen IPS as a field with unique concepts that facilitate a new understanding of international relations, serving as more than just a common ground for various critical perspectives…
Motioning the International: Thinking International Relations with Movement
The “mobilities turn” across the social sciences has inspired critical engagements with the movement of people and things in international political sociology, as well as critical international relations (IR) more broadly. Yet, these engagements with the politics of varied (im)mobilities have paid less attention to the theoretical implications of motion, mobility, and movement as analytical and political tools. This article brings together a set …
Motioning the security–migration nexus: Life-in-motion and the (counter)mapping of movement
This article explores (a) how conceptualisations of movement embed sedentism within the security–migration nexus and its protection logics and (b) which conceptualisation of movement can analytically challenge that embedding. The overall aim is to problematise the opposition between sedentism and movement. I address these questions by analysing mapping and countermapping practices and considering what insights can be gained by conceptualising lif…
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology
Resistance’ and related concepts like ‘counter-conduct’, ‘counter-politics’ and ‘revolution’ continue to gain an intense interest and use. At the same time, however, we observe an intensified questioning of the concept of resistance and in particular the logic of negativity that it inscribes into our understanding of difference and its politics. Engaging with contributions that have pushed the concept of resistance and its dialectic logic of nega…
How to be Critical of Security Today? Life in Motion, Untimeliness and the Critique of End-Thinking
This article starts from the observation of intense political mobilisations of existential endings. One of the defining challenges for critical engagements with such mobilisations remains how to take war, environmental degradation and pandemics seriously without making existential end-times the conditions that define the present. The article proposes to move beyond critical knowledge that makes security contingent and engage with the conception o…
Collective Discussion: Movement and Carceral Spatiality in the Pandemic
Various measures of mobility restrictions were introduced since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This collective discussion examines them in relation to six different carceral techniques that govern movement: citizenship, nativism, colonialism, infrastructure, gender, and borders. We investigate how these spatializing techniques of carcerality have been modified and strengthened in the pandemic and their implications for how we conceptualiz…
Fear and insecurity in the politics of austerity
This paper examines how fear and insecurity are deployed in disputes over austerity. Drawing on discussions on the cultures of fear and on the social and political process which weaves fear and insecurity into the fabric of society, we analyse how austerity was justified and opposed in the Finnish parliament in 2015. We bring out different renditions of fear in five registers of justification that were deployed in the dispute. The registers evoke…
Motioning the politics of security: The primacy of movement and the subject of security
The article explores challenges that giving conceptual primacy to movement poses for thinking the politics of security. In security studies, there has been an intense interest in mobile phenomena and the nature of security techniques that seek to control, contain or steer them. However, when exploring how these mobile phenomena bear upon conceptions of politics and their contestation, the analytics tend to turn back to more static or sedentary ca…
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
International Political Sociology as a Mode of Critique: Fracturing Totalities
This paper asks how international political sociology (IPS) can articulate its criticality so that it can continue to engage with lineages that privilege processes and practices emerging from the always fluid and multiple entanglements of fragments without resorting to totalizing logics. IPS and IR more generally have experienced an intensified interest in situated and micro analyses. Engaging the fragmentation of the international, however, has …
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…
Assembling credibility: Knowledge, method and critique in times of ‘post-truth’
Critical approaches in security studies have been increasingly turning to methods and standards internal to knowledge practice to validate their knowledge claims. This quest for scientific standards now also operates against the background of debates on ‘post-truth’, which raise pressing and perplexing questions for critical lines of thought. We propose a different approach by conceptualizing validity as practices of assembling credibility in whi…
The concept of ‘the everyday’: Ephemeral politics and the abundance of life
Against the background of a continuing interest in the everyday in international relations, this article asks what kind of analytics upon and within the world mobilises one through the concept of the everyday and what consequences this may have for thinking about politics. In particular, it explores a conception of the the everyday that foregrounds the abundance of human life and ephemeral temporalities. The abundance of life invites a densificat…
Democratic curiosity in times of surveillance
Taking my cue from feminist curiosity and literature on the everyday in surveillance studies, I am proposing ‘democratic curiosity’ as a tool for revisiting the question of democracy in times of extitutional surveillance. Democratic curiosity seeks to bring into analytical play the social and political power of little nothings – the power of subjects, things, practices, and relations that are rendered trivial – and the uncoordinated disputes they…
Ten Years of IPS: Fracturing IR
In the past few years the relative success of international political sociology as an intellectual project has stimulated debates about its contribution to international studies. With this issue we celebrate ten years of International Political Sociology. The journal was created in 2006, with the first issue published in 2007. It has been an intellectually fascinating ride. Since its beginnings, IPS sought to engage the “problem of the internatio…
Security Unbound: Enacting democratic limits
Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy. Security is not in the first instance a right or value but a practice that challenges democratic institutions and a…
Critical methods in International Relations: The politics of techniques, devices and acts
Methods have increasingly been placed at the heart of theoretical and empirical research in International Relations (IR) and social sciences more generally. This article explores the role of methods in IR and argues that methods can be part of a critical project if reconceptualized away from neutral techniques of organizing empirical material and research design. It proposes a two-pronged reconceptualization of critical methods as devices which e…
European Citizenship Unbound: Sex Work, Mobility, Mobilisation
In October 2005 200 delegates from twenty-eight countries in Europe gathered in Brussels to take part in an event for sex workers' rights, which involved a three-day conference, the presentation of a Declaration on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe in the European Parliament, the drafting of a Manifesto, recommendations for policy makers, a party, and a demonstration. The sex workers' mobilisation appears, at first sight, to be an exemplary for…
International Political Sociology: Opening Spaces, Stretching Lines
Journal Article International Political Sociology: Opening Spaces, Stretching Lines Get access Jef Huysmans, Jef Huysmans Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joao Pontes Nogueira Joao Pontes Nogueira Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 1…
What’s in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings
This article makes a claim for re-engaging the concept of ‘act’ in the study of securitization. While much has been written about the discursive and communicative aspects of securitizing, the concept of ‘act’ that contains much of the politicality of the speech-act approach to security has been relatively ignored. The task of re-engaging ‘acts’ is particularly pertinent in the contemporary context, in which politically salient speech acts are hea…
Acts of European Citizenship: A Political Sociology of Mobility
European citizenship is marked by a tension: between a citizenship that is derivative of the nation‐state and a citizenship that is defined by free movement. Approaching this tension as symptomatic of a deep‐rooted contradiction between integration and mobility that is constitutive of modern social formations, this article develops a political sociology of mobility that challenges territorial and culturalist accounts of European citizenship. It d…
IPS Forum on Cynthia Weber's Multi-media Project, 'I Am an American
As a response to the American Ad Council's advertising campaign “I Am an American,” Cynthia Weber developed a multi-media project “I Am an American”: Video Portraits of Unsafe US Citizens. It raises questions about the form of presenting and developing knowledge and the place of aesthetics and modern video techniques in engaging politically and intellectually with national identity construction, the constitution of citizenship and insecurity, and…
International Political Sociology Beyond European and North American Traditions of Social and Political Thoughtï¿1⁄2Introduction
Introduktion til 'Forum' om 'International Political Sociology Beyond European and North American Traditions of Social and Political Thought' Udgivelsesdato: 2009
Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights and the Mob
This article argues that a political reading of mobility is instrumental for understanding the role of democracy within globalised structures of power. Relegated to a socio-economic background that prompts new engagements with democracy, mobility has been neglected as a condition of possibility and as a form of political democratic practice. Drawing on Georg Simmel's sociology of money, we show that practices of mobility become democratic moments…
Introduction to the Forum on Global Society
Journal Article Introduction to the Forum on Global Society Get access Jef Huysmans Jef Huysmans Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2009, Page 109, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00066_1.x Published: 02 March 2009
The European Union and the Securitization of Migration
This article deals with the question of how migration has developed into a security issue in western Europe and how the European integration process is implicated in it. Since the 1980s, the political construction of migration increasingly referred to the destabilizing effects of migration on domestic integration and to the dangers for public order it implied. The spillover of the internal market into a European internal security question mirrors…
What’s in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings
This article makes a claim for re-engaging the concept of ‘act’ in the study of securitization. While much has been written about the discursive and communicative aspects of securitizing, the concept of ‘act’ that contains much of the politicality of the speech-act approach to security has been relatively ignored. The task of re-engaging ‘acts’ is particularly pertinent in the contemporary context, in which politically salient speech acts are hea…
Critical methods in International Relations: The politics of techniques, devices and acts
Methods have increasingly been placed at the heart of theoretical and empirical research in International Relations (IR) and social sciences more generally. This article explores the role of methods in IR and argues that methods can be part of a critical project if reconceptualized away from neutral techniques of organizing empirical material and research design. It proposes a two-pronged reconceptualization of critical methods as devices which e…
Security! What Do You Mean: From Concept to Thick Signifier
This article starts from the following observation. Although the debate on expanding the security agenda to non-military sectors and non-state referent objects launched an interesting discussion about the security (studies) agenda, it has not really dealt with the meaning of security. It has concentrated on adding adjectives such as `societal', `environmental', `world', etc. to security but has largely neglected the meaning — or, more technically…
The Question of the Limit: Desecuritisation and the Aesthetics of Horror in Political Realism
Desecuritisation-or, the unmaking of the securitisation-of migration, is a critical strategy which should make it possible to relocate the question of migration to a context of ethico-political judgement in wh ich one does not seek to found the political on the basis of an existential threat. This article contributes to a better understanding of the ethico-political problematique this 'relocation' addresses by rendering explicit the central ethic…
Minding Exceptions: The Politics of Insecurity and Liberal Democracy
Politics of Exception and Unease: Immigration, Asylum and Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates in the UK
This article analyses how the British political elite has securitised migration and asylum since 9/11 by looking at when and how parliamentary debates linked counter-terrorism to immigration and/or asylum. The findings suggest that there is considerable reluctance within the political elite to introduce or especially sustain the connection between migration and terrorism too intensely in public debate. The parliamentary debates also show that for…
Defining Social Constructivism in Security Studies: The Normative Dilemma of Writing Security
Explains security formation as it relates to social interpretations from a social constructivist perspective. Consequences of approaching identity questions from a security perspective; Interpretation of security problems in the societal area without the risk of repeating the securitization of the area; Sociological understanding of the governing work of the security information; Mobilization of security formation from a sociological angle
The Jargon of Exception-On Schmitt, Agamben and the Absence of Political Society
The idiom of exception is again central to the politics of insecurity in Europe, the United States, and Australia. One of the key characteristics of the jargon of exception is its suppression of political renditions of the societal. In doing so, it eliminates one of the constituting categories of modern democratic politics, hence producing an impoverished and ultimately illusionary understanding of the processes of political contestation and domi…
The concept of ‘the everyday’: Ephemeral politics and the abundance of life
Against the background of a continuing interest in the everyday in international relations, this article asks what kind of analytics upon and within the world mobilises one through the concept of the everyday and what consequences this may have for thinking about politics. In particular, it explores a conception of the the everyday that foregrounds the abundance of human life and ephemeral temporalities. The abundance of life invites a densificat…
Acts of European Citizenship: A Political Sociology of Mobility
European citizenship is marked by a tension: between a citizenship that is derivative of the nation‐state and a citizenship that is defined by free movement. Approaching this tension as symptomatic of a deep‐rooted contradiction between integration and mobility that is constitutive of modern social formations, this article develops a political sociology of mobility that challenges territorial and culturalist accounts of European citizenship. It d…
Assembling credibility: Knowledge, method and critique in times of ‘post-truth’
Critical approaches in security studies have been increasingly turning to methods and standards internal to knowledge practice to validate their knowledge claims. This quest for scientific standards now also operates against the background of debates on ‘post-truth’, which raise pressing and perplexing questions for critical lines of thought. We propose a different approach by conceptualizing validity as practices of assembling credibility in whi…
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
International Politics of Insecurity: Normativity, Inwardness and the Exception
This article seeks (a) to show the complexities of the concept of exception in international politics, (b) to suggest that the current politics of insecurity are not limited to a clash over the status and limits of normativity in international politics, and (c) to introduce conceptual groundwork for theorizing international politics of insecurity as a contest of the exception. By combining normative and existential concepts of exception, a concep…
Revisiting Copenhagen: Or, On the Creative Development of a Security Studies Agenda in Europe
Egbert Jahn, Pierre Lemaitre and Ole Weaver, Copenhagen Papers 1. European Security - Problems of Research on Non-military Aspects. (Copenhagen: Centre for Peace and Conflict Research, 1987). Ole Weaver, Pierre Lemaitre and Elzbieta Tromer, eds. European Polyphony: Perspectives beyond East-West Confrontation. (London: Macmillan, 1989). Barry Buzan, Morten Kelstrup, Pierre Lemaitre, Elzbieta Tromer ad Ole Weaver, The European Security Order Recast…
A Foucaultian view on spill-over: Freedom and security in the EU
European Citizenship Unbound: Sex Work, Mobility, Mobilisation
In October 2005 200 delegates from twenty-eight countries in Europe gathered in Brussels to take part in an event for sex workers' rights, which involved a three-day conference, the presentation of a Declaration on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe in the European Parliament, the drafting of a Manifesto, recommendations for policy makers, a party, and a demonstration. The sex workers' mobilisation appears, at first sight, to be an exemplary for…
Ten Years of IPS: Fracturing IR
In the past few years the relative success of international political sociology as an intellectual project has stimulated debates about its contribution to international studies. With this issue we celebrate ten years of International Political Sociology. The journal was created in 2006, with the first issue published in 2007. It has been an intellectually fascinating ride. Since its beginnings, IPS sought to engage the “problem of the internatio…
International Politics of Exception: Competing Visions of International Political Order between Law and Politics
Both political leaders and academics often claim exceptional times. But what does it mean to speak of exceptional politics in international relations? In one sense exceptionality is a descriptive category referring to a radical change in the systemic conditions of international politics. In this article a different notion of exception is examined. It refers to a particular method of conceptualizing the nature of international political order. The…
International Political Sociology: Opening Spaces, Stretching Lines
Journal Article International Political Sociology: Opening Spaces, Stretching Lines Get access Jef Huysmans, Jef Huysmans Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joao Pontes Nogueira Joao Pontes Nogueira Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 1…
Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights and the Mob
This article argues that a political reading of mobility is instrumental for understanding the role of democracy within globalised structures of power. Relegated to a socio-economic background that prompts new engagements with democracy, mobility has been neglected as a condition of possibility and as a form of political democratic practice. Drawing on Georg Simmel's sociology of money, we show that practices of mobility become democratic moments…
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…
International Political Sociology as a Mode of Critique: Fracturing Totalities
This paper asks how international political sociology (IPS) can articulate its criticality so that it can continue to engage with lineages that privilege processes and practices emerging from the always fluid and multiple entanglements of fragments without resorting to totalizing logics. IPS and IR more generally have experienced an intensified interest in situated and micro analyses. Engaging the fragmentation of the international, however, has …
Democratic curiosity in times of surveillance
Taking my cue from feminist curiosity and literature on the everyday in surveillance studies, I am proposing ‘democratic curiosity’ as a tool for revisiting the question of democracy in times of extitutional surveillance. Democratic curiosity seeks to bring into analytical play the social and political power of little nothings – the power of subjects, things, practices, and relations that are rendered trivial – and the uncoordinated disputes they…
Know your Schmitt: A godfather of truth and the spectre of Nazism
In a recent article in the Review of International Studies Hans-Karl Pichler argues that Hans Morgenthau's intellectual universe was saturated by ‘typically European philosophical problems’ which he transferred to an American political context. He shows this by looking at how Morgenthau tried to overcome the value determinacy of social science, as pointed out by Weber, by grounding his political realist theory in a Schmittean understanding of the…
Reading and Writing Non-Offensive Defence: Closing the Debate
Bjørn Møller has written two books on non-offensive defence (NOD) that synthesize the core of the debate in the 1980s: its German character and its viability as a security instrument. It is a very good synthesis of this core, but as a synthesis it is not simply a reproduction of a debate but also a (re)interpretation. Two main dimensions of this (re)interpretation are examined in this essay. First, the particular way in which Bjørn Møller develop…
Post-Cold War Implosion and Globalisation: Liberalism Running Past Itself
The Question of the Limit: Desecuritisation and the Aesthetics of Horror in Political Realism
Desecuritisation-or, the unmaking of the securitisation-of migration, is a critical strategy which should make it possible to relocate the question of migration to a context of ethico-political judgement in wh ich one does not seek to found the political on the basis of an existential threat. This article contributes to a better understanding of the ethico-political problematique this 'relocation' addresses by rendering explicit the central ethic…
Security! What Do You Mean: From Concept to Thick Signifier
This article starts from the following observation. Although the debate on expanding the security agenda to non-military sectors and non-state referent objects launched an interesting discussion about the security (studies) agenda, it has not really dealt with the meaning of security. It has concentrated on adding adjectives such as `societal', `environmental', `world', etc. to security but has largely neglected the meaning — or, more technically…
Revisiting Copenhagen: Or, On the Creative Development of a Security Studies Agenda in Europe
Egbert Jahn, Pierre Lemaitre and Ole Weaver, Copenhagen Papers 1. European Security - Problems of Research on Non-military Aspects. (Copenhagen: Centre for Peace and Conflict Research, 1987). Ole Weaver, Pierre Lemaitre and Elzbieta Tromer, eds. European Polyphony: Perspectives beyond East-West Confrontation. (London: Macmillan, 1989). Barry Buzan, Morten Kelstrup, Pierre Lemaitre, Elzbieta Tromer ad Ole Weaver, The European Security Order Recast…
Dire et écrire la sécurité: Le Dilemme Normatif Des Études De Sécurité
Dire et crire la scurit : le dilemme normatif des tudes de scurit
Know your Schmitt: A godfather of truth and the spectre of Nazism
In a recent article in the Review of International Studies Hans-Karl Pichler argues that Hans Morgenthau's intellectual universe was saturated by ‘typically European philosophical problems’ which he transferred to an American political context. He shows this by looking at how Morgenthau tried to overcome the value determinacy of social science, as pointed out by Weber, by grounding his political realist theory in a Schmittean understanding of the…
The European Union and the Securitization of Migration
This article deals with the question of how migration has developed into a security issue in western Europe and how the European integration process is implicated in it. Since the 1980s, the political construction of migration increasingly referred to the destabilizing effects of migration on domestic integration and to the dangers for public order it implied. The spillover of the internal market into a European internal security question mirrors…
Defining Social Constructivism in Security Studies: The Normative Dilemma of Writing Security
Explains security formation as it relates to social interpretations from a social constructivist perspective. Consequences of approaching identity questions from a security perspective; Interpretation of security problems in the societal area without the risk of repeating the securitization of the area; Sociological understanding of the governing work of the security information; Mobilization of security formation from a sociological angle
Shape-shifting Nato: Humanitarian action and the Kosovo refugee crisis
The article deals with NATO's intervention in Kosovo. Instead of focusing on the military and diplomatic interventions, the article looks at how NATO developed a humanitarian interest in providing assistance and protection to the Kosovo Albanian refugees. In the name of the refugees—and to a lesser extent, of internally displaced persons—NATO entered a humanitarian field and was partly transfigured into a humanitarian agency during the crisis in …
A Foucaultian view on spill-over: Freedom and security in the EU
Minding Exceptions: The Politics of Insecurity and Liberal Democracy
The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU
The book critically engages with theoretical developments in international relations and security studies to develop a fresh conceptual framework for studying security. Contents \n1. Politics of insecurity, technology and the political 2. Security framing: the question of the meaning of security 3. Displacing the spectre of the state in security studies: From referent objects to techniques of government 4. Securitizing migration: Freedom from exi…
International Politics of Insecurity: Normativity, Inwardness and the Exception
This article seeks (a) to show the complexities of the concept of exception in international politics, (b) to suggest that the current politics of insecurity are not limited to a clash over the status and limits of normativity in international politics, and (c) to introduce conceptual groundwork for theorizing international politics of insecurity as a contest of the exception. By combining normative and existential concepts of exception, a concep…
International Politics of Exception: Competing Visions of International Political Order between Law and Politics
Both political leaders and academics often claim exceptional times. But what does it mean to speak of exceptional politics in international relations? In one sense exceptionality is a descriptive category referring to a radical change in the systemic conditions of international politics. In this article a different notion of exception is examined. It refers to a particular method of conceptualizing the nature of international political order. The…
Introduction to the First Forum
One of the main purposes of the journal International Political Sociology is to function as a hub for circulating ideas about defining themes and arguments for international political sociology. In addition to the main articles, we have set up the Forum, which seeks to facilitate snappier discussion of key ideas. In the Forum, we will publish short letters (up to 900 words) that address particular issues, arguments, or events that relate to the p…
Introduction: The Social Construction and Control of Danger in Counterterrorism
The destruction of the New York City twin towers and a wing of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, marks a turning point in post--Cold War security agendas. The reactions to these events reinforce the language, as well as the imaginary and political credibility, of a new threat. The new dangers have a transnational quality that easily links into discourses and policies of insecurity gaining momentum since the end of the Cold War. Medleys of inter…
Politics of Exception and Unease: Immigration, Asylum and Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates in the UK
This article analyses how the British political elite has securitised migration and asylum since 9/11 by looking at when and how parliamentary debates linked counter-terrorism to immigration and/or asylum. The findings suggest that there is considerable reluctance within the political elite to introduce or especially sustain the connection between migration and terrorism too intensely in public debate. The parliamentary debates also show that for…
The Jargon of Exception-On Schmitt, Agamben and the Absence of Political Society
The idiom of exception is again central to the politics of insecurity in Europe, the United States, and Australia. One of the key characteristics of the jargon of exception is its suppression of political renditions of the societal. In doing so, it eliminates one of the constituting categories of modern democratic politics, hence producing an impoverished and ultimately illusionary understanding of the processes of political contestation and domi…
International Political Sociology Beyond European and North American Traditions of Social and Political Thoughtï¿1⁄2Introduction
Introduktion til 'Forum' om 'International Political Sociology Beyond European and North American Traditions of Social and Political Thought' Udgivelsesdato: 2009
Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights and the Mob
This article argues that a political reading of mobility is instrumental for understanding the role of democracy within globalised structures of power. Relegated to a socio-economic background that prompts new engagements with democracy, mobility has been neglected as a condition of possibility and as a form of political democratic practice. Drawing on Georg Simmel's sociology of money, we show that practices of mobility become democratic moments…
Introduction to the Forum on Global Society
Journal Article Introduction to the Forum on Global Society Get access Jef Huysmans Jef Huysmans Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2009, Page 109, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00066_1.x Published: 02 March 2009
Acts of European Citizenship: A Political Sociology of Mobility
European citizenship is marked by a tension: between a citizenship that is derivative of the nation‐state and a citizenship that is defined by free movement. Approaching this tension as symptomatic of a deep‐rooted contradiction between integration and mobility that is constitutive of modern social formations, this article develops a political sociology of mobility that challenges territorial and culturalist accounts of European citizenship. It d…
IPS Forum on Cynthia Weber's Multi-media Project, 'I Am an American
As a response to the American Ad Council's advertising campaign “I Am an American,” Cynthia Weber developed a multi-media project “I Am an American”: Video Portraits of Unsafe US Citizens. It raises questions about the form of presenting and developing knowledge and the place of aesthetics and modern video techniques in engaging politically and intellectually with national identity construction, the constitution of citizenship and insecurity, and…
What’s in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings
This article makes a claim for re-engaging the concept of ‘act’ in the study of securitization. While much has been written about the discursive and communicative aspects of securitizing, the concept of ‘act’ that contains much of the politicality of the speech-act approach to security has been relatively ignored. The task of re-engaging ‘acts’ is particularly pertinent in the contemporary context, in which politically salient speech acts are hea…
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