Scott D Watson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 908040 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Scott D Watson |
| PRENOMES | Scott D |
| SOBRENOME | Watson |
| ASSINATURA | WATSON S D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7801-714X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Disaster risk reduction and Evangelical Christianity
As climate change increases the probability and intensity of major disasters, urgent action is required to prepare for and address the underlying causes of disaster. The disaster risk reduction (DRR) framework was adopted to focus national and international attention on the social production of vulnerability to disaster risk, yet it faces politically mobilised opposition, including from the Evangelical Christian (EC) community. This article sugge…
Conspiracy Theories and Human Trafficking
Conspiracy theories have become a prevalent feature of public discourse, with human trafficking featuring as a key component of contemporary populist conspiracy claims. This paper examines the impact of trafficking conspiracy theories and concludes that rather than challenging the accounts of relevant powerful actors, they reinforce the dominant narratives and institutions that shape anti-trafficking policies, and rather than democratizing knowle…
Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy
In this article, we analyse how anti-globalist conspiracy theories were mobilised online to delegitimise national authorities and policies designed to curb the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada. These conspiracy theories attacked the political authority underpinning public health measures and targeted purportedly ‘liberal’ policies and ‘globalist’ actors. Our case study examines the Freedom Convoy, a series of protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates…
Borders and Migration
Borders and Migration
International Order and the Politics of Disaster
In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy. Based on empirical analysis of the three international disaster management regimes - disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration - and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the United States, Egypt and China, Watson argues th…
Regulating NGO funding
Securitization theory (ST) has succeeded in putting the relation between politics and security at the forefront of research in security studies. Despite this success, little attention has been given to the way states themselves produce the boundaries of legitimate political activity, particularly in relation to the boundaries between civil society and the state and between the foreign and domestic. This article is concerned with how states see th…
Everyday nationalism and international hockey
This paper examines how hockey is used to construct and demarcate the Canadian national community from external others, namely, the USA, Europe and Russia/USSR. The paper suggests popular nationalist narratives around the sport of hockey construct difference from external others in ways that place them in tension with state and corporate interests. Drawing on the concept of everyday nationalism, this article explores how the interplay between int…
Macrosecuritization and the securitization dilemma in the Canadian Arctic
This article explores the process of macrosecuritization in reference to overlapping security claims in the Canadian Arctic. It identifies how macrosecuritizing frames, such as the Cold War, emerge and hierarchically order other security frames (Canadian sovereignty, environmental security) and, in doing so, enable securitizing actors to portray these measures as threatening in another sector of security – what the article refers to as the securi…
The ‘human’ as referent object
Humanitarianism rivals security in its ability to legitimize emergency measures, and has also proven to be as ambiguous and open to abuse. In this article, humanitarianism is reconceptualized as a sector of securitization, like state and societal securitization, meaning that it is a structured field of practice that draws on existing discourses and institutions to enable the implementation of emergency measures. This reconceptualization contribut…
Framing’ the Copenhagen School
In recent years, the field of security studies has turned increasing attention to the processes through which security threats are constructed. Two approaches in particular have flourished, securitisation and framing, but scholars working within these frameworks generally do not draw on the other body of literature to inform theoretical development or to accumulate cases. This has resulted in the production of parallel literatures and the duplica…
Impugning the Humanitarian Defence
This article examines the claim that democratic states are justified in restricting access to asylum seekers on the grounds that failing to do so reduces public support for humanitarian refugee policies – referred to here as the humanitarian defence. Drawing on detailed historical, comparative and interpretive analysis of migration policy in Canada and Australia, the author builds on Matthew Gibney’s development of practically guided normative th…
Back Home, Safe and Sound
Journal Article Back Home, Safe and Sound: The Public and Private Production of Insecurity Get access Scott Watson Scott Watson University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 160–177, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00127.x Published: 18 May 2011
The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
1. Migration and Securitization 2. Norms of the International Refugee Regime 3. Detention and Naval Interception in Canada 4. Naval Interception and Detention in Australia 5. Visa Requirements in Canada and Australia
The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian principles. Watson examines how refugees and asylum seekers have come to be treated so poorly by these states through the use of policies such as visa…
The ‘human’ as referent object
Humanitarianism rivals security in its ability to legitimize emergency measures, and has also proven to be as ambiguous and open to abuse. In this article, humanitarianism is reconceptualized as a sector of securitization, like state and societal securitization, meaning that it is a structured field of practice that draws on existing discourses and institutions to enable the implementation of emergency measures. This reconceptualization contribut…
Framing’ the Copenhagen School
In recent years, the field of security studies has turned increasing attention to the processes through which security threats are constructed. Two approaches in particular have flourished, securitisation and framing, but scholars working within these frameworks generally do not draw on the other body of literature to inform theoretical development or to accumulate cases. This has resulted in the production of parallel literatures and the duplica…
Everyday nationalism and international hockey
This paper examines how hockey is used to construct and demarcate the Canadian national community from external others, namely, the USA, Europe and Russia/USSR. The paper suggests popular nationalist narratives around the sport of hockey construct difference from external others in ways that place them in tension with state and corporate interests. Drawing on the concept of everyday nationalism, this article explores how the interplay between int…
Regulating NGO funding
Securitization theory (ST) has succeeded in putting the relation between politics and security at the forefront of research in security studies. Despite this success, little attention has been given to the way states themselves produce the boundaries of legitimate political activity, particularly in relation to the boundaries between civil society and the state and between the foreign and domestic. This article is concerned with how states see th…
Macrosecuritization and the securitization dilemma in the Canadian Arctic
This article explores the process of macrosecuritization in reference to overlapping security claims in the Canadian Arctic. It identifies how macrosecuritizing frames, such as the Cold War, emerge and hierarchically order other security frames (Canadian sovereignty, environmental security) and, in doing so, enable securitizing actors to portray these measures as threatening in another sector of security – what the article refers to as the securi…
Back Home, Safe and Sound
Journal Article Back Home, Safe and Sound: The Public and Private Production of Insecurity Get access Scott Watson Scott Watson University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 160–177, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00127.x Published: 18 May 2011
The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
1. Migration and Securitization 2. Norms of the International Refugee Regime 3. Detention and Naval Interception in Canada 4. Naval Interception and Detention in Australia 5. Visa Requirements in Canada and Australia
The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian principles. Watson examines how refugees and asylum seekers have come to be treated so poorly by these states through the use of policies such as visa…
The ‘human’ as referent object
Humanitarianism rivals security in its ability to legitimize emergency measures, and has also proven to be as ambiguous and open to abuse. In this article, humanitarianism is reconceptualized as a sector of securitization, like state and societal securitization, meaning that it is a structured field of practice that draws on existing discourses and institutions to enable the implementation of emergency measures. This reconceptualization contribut…
Framing’ the Copenhagen School
In recent years, the field of security studies has turned increasing attention to the processes through which security threats are constructed. Two approaches in particular have flourished, securitisation and framing, but scholars working within these frameworks generally do not draw on the other body of literature to inform theoretical development or to accumulate cases. This has resulted in the production of parallel literatures and the duplica…
Impugning the Humanitarian Defence
This article examines the claim that democratic states are justified in restricting access to asylum seekers on the grounds that failing to do so reduces public support for humanitarian refugee policies – referred to here as the humanitarian defence. Drawing on detailed historical, comparative and interpretive analysis of migration policy in Canada and Australia, the author builds on Matthew Gibney’s development of practically guided normative th…
Back Home, Safe and Sound
Journal Article Back Home, Safe and Sound: The Public and Private Production of Insecurity Get access Scott Watson Scott Watson University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 160–177, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00127.x Published: 18 May 2011
Macrosecuritization and the securitization dilemma in the Canadian Arctic
This article explores the process of macrosecuritization in reference to overlapping security claims in the Canadian Arctic. It identifies how macrosecuritizing frames, such as the Cold War, emerge and hierarchically order other security frames (Canadian sovereignty, environmental security) and, in doing so, enable securitizing actors to portray these measures as threatening in another sector of security – what the article refers to as the securi…
Everyday nationalism and international hockey
This paper examines how hockey is used to construct and demarcate the Canadian national community from external others, namely, the USA, Europe and Russia/USSR. The paper suggests popular nationalist narratives around the sport of hockey construct difference from external others in ways that place them in tension with state and corporate interests. Drawing on the concept of everyday nationalism, this article explores how the interplay between int…
Regulating NGO funding
Securitization theory (ST) has succeeded in putting the relation between politics and security at the forefront of research in security studies. Despite this success, little attention has been given to the way states themselves produce the boundaries of legitimate political activity, particularly in relation to the boundaries between civil society and the state and between the foreign and domestic. This article is concerned with how states see th…
International Order and the Politics of Disaster
In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy. Based on empirical analysis of the three international disaster management regimes - disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration - and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the United States, Egypt and China, Watson argues th…
Borders and Migration
Borders and Migration
Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy
In this article, we analyse how anti-globalist conspiracy theories were mobilised online to delegitimise national authorities and policies designed to curb the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada. These conspiracy theories attacked the political authority underpinning public health measures and targeted purportedly ‘liberal’ policies and ‘globalist’ actors. Our case study examines the Freedom Convoy, a series of protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates…
Disaster risk reduction and Evangelical Christianity
As climate change increases the probability and intensity of major disasters, urgent action is required to prepare for and address the underlying causes of disaster. The disaster risk reduction (DRR) framework was adopted to focus national and international attention on the social production of vulnerability to disaster risk, yet it faces politically mobilised opposition, including from the Evangelical Christian (EC) community. This article sugge…
Conspiracy Theories and Human Trafficking
Conspiracy theories have become a prevalent feature of public discourse, with human trafficking featuring as a key component of contemporary populist conspiracy claims. This paper examines the impact of trafficking conspiracy theories and concludes that rather than challenging the accounts of relevant powerful actors, they reinforce the dominant narratives and institutions that shape anti-trafficking policies, and rather than democratizing knowle…
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