The Political Psychology of (de)Securitization

Place-Making Strategies in Denmark, Sweden, and Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID4476550
AuthorsCatarina Kinnvall (0000-0002-8401-6434, Lund University), Paul Nesbitt-Larking (0000-0003-3473-489X, Department of Political Science, Huron University College, The University of Western Ontario, 1349 Western Road, London, Ontario N6G 1H3, Canada)
Year2010
Volume28
Issue6
Pages1051-1070
Publication date2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d13808
OpenAlexW2103646118
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited47

In this article we demonstrate how both state structures and collective agencies contribute to patterns of securitization and, in so doing, reconfigure conceptions of space and place. Focusing on the life-chances of Muslim minority populations in Denmark, Sweden, and Canada, we begin by establishing how experiences of empire and colonization have shaped dominant regimes of citizenship and multiculturalism. Analyzing responses to the Danish newspaper publication of the 'Mohammed cartoons', we illustrate the dynamics of place making that are operative in the political psychology of securitization. Our analysis illustrates the cosmopolitical and dialogical character of Canadian multiculturalism and how such a regime facilitates a politics of space that is distinct from the cartographies of imperialism that inform place making in Denmark and, to a lesser extent, Sweden

Citizenship · Danish · Dialogical self · Empire · Making-of · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Securitization · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology