Beyond ambivalence: Locating the whiteness of security

Machold, Rhys; Charrett, Catherine

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“…As such, we understand race not only in terms of Othering, but also as constituting the Self through whiteness. From an intersectional perspective, we centre the work that processes of gendering (Zalewski, 2010) and racialization do (Machold and Charrett, 2021) to not only visually construct the 'ideal' Self and 'deviant' Other, but to generate particular ways of seeing, such as the 'male gaze' or 'white sight' (Mirzoeff, 2023), that privilege and normalize certain positions of power.…”

Section: A Feminist Postcolonial Approach To Intervisualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our approach is intersectional in that we are interested in how gender is co-constituted with other categories of difference and structures of inequality, particularly race ( Crenshaw, 1989 ; Yuval-Davis, 2006 ). As racial orders are central to the field of security (among others, Achilleos-Sarll, 2023 ; Machold and Charrett, 2021 ), this approach foregrounds how gender intersects with race to construct hierarchical differences based on perceived dichotomies between masculine/feminine, white/non-white, European/non-European, rational/emotional, civilized/barbarian, us/them, among other pairings ( McCall, 2005 ; McClintock, 1995 ; Mohanty, 1984 ; Peterson, 2010 ). As such, we understand race not only in terms of Othering, but also as constituting the Self through whiteness.…”

Section: A Feminist Postcolonial Approach To Intervisualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex’s Risk Analysis

2023

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Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gendered and racialized meanings of migration and border security. Using a feminist postcolonial lens, we develop an intervisual framework for studying how processes of gendering and racialization render subjects, practices and spaces knowable at the intersection between these visuals. We apply this framework to a case study of Frontex’s Risk Analysis Reports (2010–2021) and demonstrate how it is applicable to other security institutions. The intervisual analysis reveals how the migrant Other and (white) European are visually reproduced through: 1) the (in)visibilization of bodies; 2) the ascription and denial of agency; and 3) the spatialization of borders as ‘frontier imaginings’ that oscillate between fortification and expansionism. The intersectional co-constitution of gender and race, we conclude, is central to the visual politics of Frontex, contributing to problematizing migrants and migration and legitimizing violent border practices.

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Section: A Feminist Postcolonial Approach To Intervisualitymentioning

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Section: A Feminist Postcolonial Approach To Intervisualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex’s Risk Analysis

2023

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“…From a focus on top–down securitization scholars have moved to study, often ethnographically, everyday acts and processes of securitization. Thus, scholars have increasingly begun to critically question concepts of security and securitization generally (Maguire et al, 2014; Diphoorn and Grassiani, 2015, 2019; Gluck and Lowe, 2017; Neocleous and Rigakos, 2011), in specific geopolitical settings (El Dardiry and Hermezm, 2020), and in relation to the body (Higate, 2012; Maguire et al, 2014), race (Machold and Charrett, 2021; Ybarra, 2019), neoliberal global economy (Diphoorn and Grassiani, 2016; Grassiani, 2017), and especially border control and irregular migration (Andreas, 2000; Ben Ze’ev and Gazit, 2018; Bigo, 2011; De Genova, 2013; Fassin, 2011; Samimian-Darash and Stalcup, 2017). Moreover, there is a growing acknowledgment regarding the normative and ethical dimensions of securitization (Floyd, 2019; Nyman and Burke, 2016; Taureck, 2006) and its influence on social relations.…”

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‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide

2022

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This introductory chapter to the monograph issue Weaponized Volunteering explicates and situates the theoretical and conceptual problems the collection addresses. It defines the concept of ‘weaponized volunteering’ and analyzes its importance for understanding the relations between contemporary trends of moralization and militarization or securitization. It does so by providing a brief genealogy of the concept of ‘volunteering’ and the rising public interest in it since the 1990s, with the upsurge of neoliberal transformations and a post-political public sphere. The introduction then continues to review changing ideas in the literature concerning civil–military relationships and also concerning the entanglement of what is considered civil and what falls under non-military ‘security’ domains. It then connects both themes to explain the value of the concept of ‘weaponized volunteering’. Finally, the introduction explores how the various articles in this monograph issue contribute to understanding how moralization and militarization, civic volunteerism, and securitization are increasingly entangled, and reinforce each other.

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The market for private security: a review, research agenda, and marketing strategies for a contested terrain

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Hornik,

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2023

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Beyond ambivalence: Locating the whiteness of security

Cited by 10 publications

References 54 publications

The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex’s Risk Analysis

The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex’s Risk Analysis

‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide

The market for private security: a review, research agenda, and marketing strategies for a contested terrain

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