Liberalism(s) and the Critical Securitization of Development Debate

Lazell, Melita

doi:10.1080/14747731.2015.1111656

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“…The inclusion of the reference to security dramatizes this reading by constructing these others as endangered, but also as dangerous. This reinforces the infiltration of development policies by security approaches, rather than the reverse, raises questions of securitization and the radicalization of development (Duffield, ), and on how, in the security‐development approach, “the South is conceived as an international threat” (Lazell, ). Second, the contradictions and limitations of SSR noted on the ground have been far from a passing phenomenon and are based in structural ambivalences dating back to its conception, mainly pertaining to the issue of the state.…”

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The discourse of security in development policies: A genealogical approach to “Security Sector Reform”

Larzillière

2019

Development Policy Review

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Security is one of the objectives that has become associated with development policies. This article offers a genealogical perspective on this shift, focusing on the introduction of “Security Sector Reform” (SSR) into development policy as an apparatus with a two‐fold normative process. The first point of note is the securitization of development policy. This pertains both to the discourse elements of the apparatus—here, the effects of the use of security semantics—and to its political technologies, with an SSR apparatus which can function as a new label for military co‐operation. This has led to new approaches in societies where this has taken place, with threat a key focus. There has also been a process of depoliticization in the wake of technical, standardized approaches. This has sidelined debate on the norms and political choices involved, albeit implicitly. Secondly, one can observe structural ambivalences in the field, chiefly on the issue of the state and the normative contradictions of a policy to strengthen “fragile states” that relies on external intervention in national politics. The case study of Lebanon complements this analysis, highlighting the structural tensions between the various aims of SSR, and how this affects local ownership: both the perception and reception of SSR are marked by power relationships which translate into hegemonic and counter‐hegemonic labelling.

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The discourse of security in development policies: A genealogical approach to “Security Sector Reform”

Larzillière

2019

Development Policy Review

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“…Still used colloquially in Israel to imply poor‐quality or inadequate work, the term “Arab labor” remains a lasting cultural category and political‐economic construction. Employment and securitization are not incompatible or mutually exclusive; they are a manifestation of discourses and practices of development that combine liberalism and security (Lazell 2016).…”

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Making Cheaper Labor: Domestic Outsourcing and Development in the Galilee

Taha

2020

Anthropology of Work Review

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This article focuses on the rise of domestic outsourcing in the high-tech industry in the Galilee in northern Israel. Outsourcing has emerged as a selfproclaimed mode of development targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel. This industry has expanded significantly in the past decade, attracting lucrative funds from public and private sources, and it has received widespread acclaim. Firms in this industry tend to have ties to the Israeli security establishment, a key player in the architecture of high-tech in Israel. At the same time, a Palestinian capitalist class has coalesced around this industry, embracing the discourse of technology and globalization as forms of self-empowerment. I argue that separation-in terms of wages and physical spaces-is a core operational characteristic within this industry, yet firms simultaneously invoke development as part of their organizational cultures, particularly the integration of Palestinian labor into the Israeli economy, empowerment of women, and peacemaking. Locating the practice of domestic outsourcing within a history of subcontracting to the Galilee, I illustrate that this "new" and "innovative" industry builds on established patterns that reinscribe Palestinian workers as a cheaper labor force. These practices illustrate the intertwinement of inclusion and exclusion within neoliberal economic development as well as the mutual production of Palestinians of 1948 as subjects of Israeli capitalism and colonialism.

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Liberalism(s) and the Critical Securitization of Development Debate

Cited by 2 publications

References 41 publications

The discourse of security in development policies: A genealogical approach to “Security Sector Reform”

The discourse of security in development policies: A genealogical approach to “Security Sector Reform”

Making Cheaper Labor: Domestic Outsourcing and Development in the Galilee

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