‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security

Châteauvert-Gagnon, Béatrice

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“…The articles of this special issue all question the extent to which change is possible – and, if so, how it might be achieved. Specifically, the contributions relate to the concepts increasingly studied in security studies: resistance and resilience (Châteauvert-Gagnon, 2022; Han, 2021; Jaspars, 2021; Krüger and Albris, 2021; McIntosh, 2022). Numerous scholars consider resistance to be the direct opposite of resilience, arguing strongly in favour of resisting what is seen as wrong or detrimental policies rather than engaging them with resilience.…”

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Insecurity, deportability and authority

Vigneswaran,

Bourbeau

2023

Security Dialogue

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Security is more than ever a central theme in the study of international migration. For the past twenty years, research on the securitization of migration has burgeoned. While these initiatives are to be applauded, we believe they may also have misdiagnosed the problem. For example, it may not be that the concept of ‘security’ needs to be ‘humanized’ in order to be more in tune with migrants’ concerns. Rather, the problem may lie in the use of the ‘migrant’ as an analytical category. The ‘migrant’ remains an inherently statist construct. The starting premise for the collection of articles in this special issue is that it is the tendency of academic research to mistake the statist category of the ‘migrant’ as an analytical category that has prevented the literature on the migration–security nexus from meaningfully reflecting the lived experience and aspirations of its human respondents, particularly as regards their encounters with forms of institutional authority, practices, resistance and resilience. We use the rubric of deportability to open up a variety of ways of thinking and talking about migration and security that do not fall back upon statist tropes. The authors in this collection take up this challenge by framing and employing concepts such as statelessness, sedentariness and expulsion to redefine our understanding of the relationship between movement and order. They take inspiration from multiple brands of social and political theorizing where conditions of violence and forced removal qualitatively differentiate the experiences and encounters of a particular group.

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Insecurity, deportability and authority

Vigneswaran,

Bourbeau

2023

Security Dialogue

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Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection

Châteauvert-Gagnon

2023

Rev. Int. Stud.

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‘I feel like a monster’, typed Chelsea Manning, referring partly to her gender identity but mostly to her job in the US military. Morally conflicted by what she saw and read while serving in Iraq, extremely isolated from her unit and experiencing emotional distress in relation to her gender identity, Manning would act on these stressors by leaking hundreds of documents to Wikileaks, and coming out as a (trans) woman. While she was quick to be classified as either a hero or a traitor, her case evades such dichotomisation and calls for more sophisticated readings. While a lot has been written on Manning in queer and transgender studies, surprisingly little has been published on this case in International Relations, not even in the quickly growing field of Queer IR. Yet Manning’s case helps highlight many of its core concerns in relation to issues of power, security, and sovereignty. In fact, what is often lost when reading the Manning case are the queer and trans logics of protection that were disrupted by Manning’s disclosures and that made such disruption possible. These dominant logics rely upon a culture of secrecy that must be preserved for performances of national security to hold true.

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The Liminal Figure of the Civilian and the Necropolitics of Protection

Doucet

2024

Journal of Global Security Studies

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Recent literature on contemporary humanitarian governance brings to light complex rationales of care and control that give expression to the ongoing coloniality of power. This paper examines the protection of civilians (PoC) from a similar vantage point. Over the past few decades, the goal of protecting civilians has produced a broad assemblage meant to guide military, police, and humanitarian operations in conflict environments. This paper argues that to “protect civilians” is to rationalize human life along a narrow biopolitical continuum grounded in the liminal figure of the civilian, a figure that in war can appear alive or dead. While the goal of protection is evidently to keep civilians alive, the rationality at work in the PoC assemblage has also given way to a particular form of necropolitics that enmeshes life and death. Following a familiar colonial profile, but one that functions to obscure racialization, the necropolitics at work in PoC begin with a quantificatory episteme of accounting for, and a counting of, civilian casualties. This has led to the establishment of civilian casualty tracking and mitigation cells as a model meant to generate lessons learned from civilian casualties. At work in the PoC, therefore, is a political theory of life that enmeshes a form of biopolitics and necropolitics: a politics of life and a politics of death.

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‘How dare she?!’: Parrhesiastic resistance and the logics of protection of/in international security

Cited by 3 publications

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Insecurity, deportability and authority

Insecurity, deportability and authority

Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection

The Liminal Figure of the Civilian and the Necropolitics of Protection

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