Bordering intimacy

Turner, Joe

doi:10.7765/9781526146946

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“…Such normative claims were incorporated into colonial modes of policing and managing intimacy, sexuality, and domesticity in extra-European geographies. 112 This has also permeated metropolitan discourses and practices of security, including in the field of counterterrorism with its notion of 'the troubling Muslim family as a site of radicalization.' 113 What our empirical findings add to the academic scholarship is an analysis of how interpersonal trust and parent-child relationships are re-rendered as sites of affective politics validated through law.…”

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Guilty knowledge: A postcolonial inquiry into knowledge, suspicion, and responsibility in the fight against terrorism financing

Anwar

İşleyen²

2022

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article studies practices of knowledge production during counterterrorism financing court cases in European courts. Developments in international law have contributed to novel regulations to criminalise and prosecute the funding of terrorism in advance of terrorist violence. In this study, we study how court cases have become important spaces for contesting and evaluating multiple knowledge claims on terrorist threat and suspicion by analysing case proceedings from both the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Building on recent debates in International Relations and postcolonial theory, we make two contributions. First, building on insights from postcolonial literature on ‘abyssal thinking’, we illustrate how legal practices differentiate between different ways of knowing by dismissing certain experiences as ‘emotional’ or ‘subjective’ in contrast to the assumed objectivity of other knowledge claims. We argue that decisions on what counts as knowledge in a court setting are situated in a specific sociopolitical setting, whereby particular knowledge and life-worlds are recognised at the expense of others. Second, we empirically show how the novel criminal laws shifts the responsibility to know terrorist threat from the state to ordinary citizens. We illustrate how the court reinforces new security logics where the state can entertain doubt, uncertainty, and trust in their practices, while the citizens cannot.

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Guilty knowledge: A postcolonial inquiry into knowledge, suspicion, and responsibility in the fight against terrorism financing

Anwar

İşleyen²

2022

Rev. Int. Stud.

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“…This threatens the very unit of the family. Turner (2020: 11) reminds us that ‘Intimacy codified as “family”, regulated by the state, is bound up with more than the organisation of movement; it is also structures access to resources, wealth, property and exposure to spectacular and cruddy forms of violence and abandonment.’ Language borders can keep families apart in some cases and/or expose them to the vulnerability of lacking full rights. One person's negotiation of a language borders may well affect other dependents (Bassel & Khan, 2021).…”

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The Securitisation of Language Borders and the (Re)production of inequalities

Khan

2022

TESOL Quarterly

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This article will focus on inequalities for migrants which are (re)produced by the promise of equality through citizenship and settlement test regimes. I theorize the links between language and borders by drawing on scholarship on security before offering an analysis of language border proliferation. Drawing on other studies and my own work, I will also outline various inequalities. First, how language can act as a proxy for the race through testing which is disproportionately more problematic for non‐Europeans. Second, how a lack of access to test centers can discriminate in testing that takes place in the country of origin prior to arrival while also reducing access to test centers in the country of arrival once settled. Third, how tests can affect women, particularly mothers who may lack access to language support and may also have care duties. I will also outline the effects of delays and in relation to language borders. In all of the above, citizenship testing is better situated as a form of border making consistent with the increasing securitization of broader society whether through offshore detention, walls, or increased surveillance.

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Calais mon Amour

Nahaboo

Kerrigan

2021

Mobility &Amp; Politics

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Bordering intimacy

Cited by 21 publications

References 149 publications

Guilty knowledge: A postcolonial inquiry into knowledge, suspicion, and responsibility in the fight against terrorism financing

Guilty knowledge: A postcolonial inquiry into knowledge, suspicion, and responsibility in the fight against terrorism financing

The Securitisation of Language Borders and the (Re)production of inequalities

Calais mon Amour

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