Global Civil War: The Non-Insured, International Containment and Post-Interventionary Society

Duffield, Mark

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“…Against this background, what seems to be 'new' about the precariat is that Western populations now are required to subordinate themselves to the same political-economic forces that have previously hit 'only' the South (Jonsson 2012). If one agrees with Duffield that the main distinction between developed and underdeveloped areas in the post-war years has been between 'insured' and 'non-insured' populations, the growing interest in precarity seems to signal that life in the global North has been deinsured (Duffield 2008). It can be read as an example of how the global North has evolved in a southward direction, as these social and political trends have tended to spread from the periphery to the centre rather than the other way around.…”

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A democratic critique of precarity

Näsström

Kalm

2015

Global Discourse

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The term ‘precarity’ has become increasingly popular as a way to capture the material and psychological vulnerability resulting from neoliberal economic reforms. This article demonstrates that such precarity is incompatible with democracy. More specifically, it makes two arguments. First, and inspired by Montesquieu’s analysis of ‘the principles’, or public commitments behind different forms of government, it argues that modern democracy is a sui generis form of government animated and sustained by a principle of shared responsibility. Second, it shows that this principle is negated by the neoliberal form of governing. The neoliberal policies currently operating in many democratic countries not only push ever more people into precarious conditions where they have to compete against each other for security and status; by displacing onto individuals a responsibility that ought to be shared and divided between citizens, they corrupt the core of democracy itself. The article thus suggests that precarity is problematic not only from the standpoint of social justice, as emphasized in earlier research, but also from the perspective of democracy. Precarity contradicts the ways of life that must be regenerated in order for a democratic form of government to sustain itself over time.

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A democratic critique of precarity

Näsström

Kalm

2015

Global Discourse

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“…56 The insured subject lives in the developed world, whereas the non-insured is part of the underdeveloped Global South. 57 These two worlds are separated by a containment policy that "functions as a global perimeter fence both separating and reproducing the generic life-chance divide between the developed and the underdeveloped worlds".…”

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“…As it will be argued, drones produce a security subject who is, adapting Mark Duffield's terminology, fundamentally uninsurable. 25 The use of these robots in killing operations announce the radicalisation of the distinction between the 'insured' in the Global North and the 'non-insured' in the Global South, via the exposure of the latter to the exclusive security concerns of the former. Drones play a productive role in the definition of new marginal spaces in the international system.…”

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Drones and the uninsurable security subjects

Barrinha

Mota

2016

Third World Quarterly

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Please cite this publication as follows: Barrinha, A. and da Mota, S. (2016) Abstract (100 words)This paper engages with the security dynamics underlying the use of drones and their impact on security subjects -individuals and groups that are the ultimate recipients of specific security policies, regardless of whether these have beneficial effects on them. Using Mark Duffield's distinction between the insured Global North and the non-insured Global South, this paper discusses how drones generate a radical dissociation between the intervener and the intervened that ultimately produces new security environments at the margins of the international system. These new security environments are defined by the articulation between space, technologies and bodies; bodies of invisible subjects. Bodies that are uninsurable.

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“…These concerns were accelerated after the 9/11 attacks on New York, with the realization that development failures in low-income countries could have direct security repercussions in highly industrialized countries. More recently, and particularly related to Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been a resurgenceof interest in the role of international development in potentially "winning hearts and minds" as part of the changing US-led counterinsurgency war (Duffield, 2008;English, 2010;Gregory, 2008;Hayden, 2009;Hoffman, 2009;Lopez, 2010;Mezran, 2009;Miller & Mills, 2010;Zambernardi, 2010).…”

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A fusão entre segurança e desenvolvimento no setor da educação: discursos e efeitos

Novelli

2013

Educ. Soc.

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ABSTRACT:The article explores the merging of security and development policies by western development agencies operating in conflict affected states, and its broad effects on the education sector. The article explores the way education has become increasingly intertwined with post 9/11 security discourses and traces the history, rationales and outcomes of this shift. The article also explores the multiple and competing discourses of a range of actors engaging with education in conflict affected states, demonstrating the way a 'common sense' discourse linking development to security masks deep divisions amongst key actors. This is then followed by a reflection on the contradictory nature of development assistance and presents some examples of the way aid to education was used during the Cold War for military rather than development purposes. Finally the article ends with a call for more research and critique on this important issue.

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Global Civil War: The Non-Insured, International Containment and Post-Interventionary Society

Cited by 117 publications

References 38 publications

A democratic critique of precarity

A democratic critique of precarity

Drones and the uninsurable security subjects

A fusão entre segurança e desenvolvimento no setor da educação: discursos e efeitos

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