Ontological security, self-articulation and the securitization of identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8911299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher S Browning (0000-0002-1604-9496, University of Eastern Finland, corresponding author), Pertti Joenniemi (University of Eastern Finland) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-47 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0010836716653161 |
| OpenAlex | W2466597353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 176 |
| References cited | 25 |
The concept of ontological security has made increasing headway within International Relations, in particular through its ability to offer alternative explanations of the forces underpinning security dilemmas and conflict in world politics. While welcoming the insights already provided by its application, this article argues that the concept’s use to date has been too much geared to questions of identity-related stability, with change viewed as disturbing and anxiety-inducing. In contrast, the article calls for a more open understanding that: (i) links ontological security to reflexivity and avoids collapsing together the concepts of self, identity and ontological security; (ii) avoids privileging securitization over desecuritization as a means for generating ontological security; and (iii) opens out the concept beyond a narrow concern with questions of conflict and the conduct of violence more towards the theorization of positive change
Articulation (sociology · Business · Epistemology · Identity (music · International relations · International security · Law and economics · Ontological security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Securitization · Security studies · Social science · Sociology · Underpinning · Global Security and Public Health · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
From Domestic Contestation to Alpha Male Foreign Policy
Ontological dissonance and memory orders
Affective regimes and ontological security
Securing ourselves from ourselves? The paradox of “entanglement” in the Anthropocene
Chinese Macrosecuritization
Securitization Outside the West
Restraint in International Politics
Brexit, existential anxiety and ontological (in)security
The Grammar of Status Competition
Populism and the Affective Politics of Humiliation Narratives
Narratives of Crisis
Understanding Securitization Success
Securing the Self, Embracing Anxiety, or Nurturing Growth? How the Pragmatism of Dewey, James, and Mead Speaks to Ontological Security Studies
Beyond Material Power
In Search of Ontological Security
The Capitulations Syndrome
From Knowledge to Wisdom
The Once and Future Tree
Ontological Crisis and the Compartmentalization of Insecurities
Strukturasi Identitas Umat Beragama Dalam Perspektif Anthony Giddens
Revisiting the Causes of Russian Foreign Policy Changes
Comparing discursive reproductions of national military image between China and the United States
Mutual desecuritization as a model of détente? Foreign policy change in the US-Cuban dyad
Security policies and sustainable development in the Western Balkan region beyond 2022
War terminations as critical situations for ontological security
Perlmutter revisited
Between Protection and Identity
Seguridad Ontológica en una Nación Ansiosa
Nexus of Patriotism and Militarism in Russia
Collective Memory in International Relations
Vicarious Identity in International Relations
Cultural Diplomacy in the War Museum
What makes or breaks revisionist states? Ontological security and historical revisionism in Serbia
Ontological insecurity and the routinization of securitization
Life narrative and the possibilities of self
‘I just see us being hammered on a daily basis’
Cinematic statecraft
Between deterrence and disarmament
Identity Change, Anxiety and Creativity
Thick Europe, ontological security and parochial Europe
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations
Failing the state self
Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics
Ontological (in)security and sustainability transitions
Enhancing Sustainability Through Tourism Diplomacy
Ontological Security and the Gulf Crisis
Changing identity to remain oneself
How peace narratives avoid or invoke ontological insecurity
Ontological (In)security of majorities
God’s country’ in crisis
Fantasies of cultural sovereignty and national unity
The paradox of ontological security in far-right narratives and the securitization of identified alterities
EU've Got to Be Kidding
Welcomed Friend or Stranger Breaking in? Patron-Client Relations and Ontological (In)securities in Abkhazia
Is Desecuritisation of Memory Possible? Ontological Dissonance and the Curious Case of the Russian–Polish Mnemonic Reconciliation
Ontological security and the dynamics of anxiety
Lettuce Rejoice in the Downfall of Liz Truss? Humour, Ontological (In)Security and the Politics of Ridicule
West as a Source of Ontological Insecurity
(Un)Funny Against All Odds
The problem of change in constructivist theory
Every one (re)membered’
Identity under Siege
Belarus as a liminal space for Russia’s ontological security before and after the 2020 protests
I can feel the money going out of the window”
Securitization through Education
Critical Security History
A true crime story
Moral Injury in International Relations
A Security Conundrum
Kin-State Intervention and the Securitization-Minority Policy Nexus
Hunger for certainty’
From Copenhagen to Uri and across the Line of Control
Mnemonic Security Dilemma. Memory as Casus Belli
The cruelty of righteous people’
De-colonizing the political ontology of Kantian ethics
Object-cause of desire and ontological security
The Conduct of Inquiry’ in ontological security studies
International society as an ontological security provider
Anxiety, time, and agency
Anxiety, fear, and ontological security in world politics
Integrating anxiety into international relations theory
The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security
We Were Here First!’
Introduction to the special issue – disputed Holocaust memory in Poland
Local Politics of Memory in Poland and South Korea
Holding Back or Pushing Forward? Patron-Client Relations and Elite Navigations in Northern Cyprus
Ontological Security, Civilian Power, and German Foreign Policy Toward Russia1
Returning to My Roots
Ontological insecurity in the Asia-Pacific
Remote warfare as “security of being”
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies
A Typology of Ontological Insecurity Mechanisms
State–society complexes in ontological security-seeking in IR
The embodied state
Narrative, desire, ontological security, transgression
Stimmung and ontological security
Negotiations of Urban Ontological Security
Signaling virtue
Whose anxiety? What practices? The Paris School and ontological security studies
Ontological vs. societal security
The culture of national security
Friendship, Security, and Power
From Enmity to Rivalry? Notes on National Identity Politics in Competition States
Identity, Interest and Action
Ontological Security in International Relations
Status in World Politics
Securitizing Islam
Identity, Interest and Action
From fratricide to security community
Friendship and the world of states
Memory must be defended’
Friends, There Are No Friends? An Intimate Reframing of the International
Ontological security and the power of self-identity
Nation Branding, National Self-Esteem, and the Constitution of Subjectivity in Late Modernity
Structure, Agency and Power in Political Analysis
Stigma Management in International Relations
Security! What Do You Mean
Ontological Security in World Politics
Who speaks? Discourse, the subject and the study of identity in international politics
Security, cosmology, Copenhagen1
Globalization and Religious Nationalism
Decolonising the Mind
| Unique citing works | 176 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 17,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 173 |