Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Adamson, Fiona B.

doi:10.1093/jogss/ogv003

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“…Such activities transcend the territorial boundaries of states, although they are nevertheless affected by and reflect the geopolitics of interstate systems. 'Online politics can, however, replicate offline politics through the creation of virtual spaces that mirror, extend rather than challenge existing community structure' (Adamson, 2016). Like global cities, virtual space is also increasingly being securitised through the extensive surveillance and monitoring by state agencies or multinational corporations.…”

Section: Cyberspace and Beyond The Statementioning

confidence: 99%

“…‘A socio-spatial approach to security studies understands territorial nation states to be only one of many spaces that are constituted through practices of violence’ (Adamson, 2016, p. 22). In international relations and security studies, the state continues to be naturalised as the dominant space of security but globalisation has created new spaces wherein security and identity have been entwined in ways that remain undertheorized.…”

Section: Alternative Spaces Of Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging Discourses on Security—From ‘Traditional’ to ‘Worldly’ and Beyond: An Innovative Indian Perspective

Gaan

2018

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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In the traditional conceptualisation of security, human beings remain predominantly at the centre stage claiming all privileges of military apparatus of the state by virtue of being 'superior' to all other living forms. Realist and neo-realist conceptualisations of the state see human kind as the sole reference point and subject of security. It is argued that the security of the state impregnates the individuals against all kinds of threats from the outside 'other'. With the emergence of non-traditional security paradigms and the broadening of the ambit of security to bring human beings directly to the mainstream, and include non-human material beings, the new materialism and worldly approaches obtain a different kind of prominence in the canon of security analysis. In this new approach, we can find the conceptualisation of 'being together' of human beings, other non-human living forms and the non-living material world being part of one whole world. This so-called 'worldly approach', articulates and emphasizes the realisation and feeling of human beings for the 'other', but falls short of suggesting any means by which human beings could expand themselves to include all-living and non-living forms to create new security models. This article analyses the relevance and applicability of ancient Indian wisdom substantiated by modern science to the analysis of state security.

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Section: Cyberspace and Beyond The Statementioning

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Section: Alternative Spaces Of Securitymentioning

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Emerging Discourses on Security—From ‘Traditional’ to ‘Worldly’ and Beyond: An Innovative Indian Perspective

Gaan

2018

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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“…22The literature is now quite large. For a non-systematic but also non-random sample of work on human security, see Adamson 2016; Axworthy 2001; Breslin and Christou 2015; Curley 2012; Homolar 2015; McCormack 2011, 2008; Robinson 2008. On wartime rape, see Cohen 2016.…”

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White Man’s IR: An Intellectual Confession

Lake¹

2016

Perspect. polit.

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Drawing largely on my own career in academia, I elaborate on the need for greater gender, racial and other forms of diversity in International Relations. Although theories are thought to be “objective,” what goes into those theories and, in turn, their explanatory power is ultimately shaped by subjective, lived experiences. Different individuals with different life stories will develop different intuitions about how the world “works,” and thus will write different theories to capture those intuitions and, in turn, larger patterns of politics. I explain here how my life experience as a privileged white male has shaped the intellectual contours of my work on international hierarchy. Building from this foundation, I then explore how professional practices elevate as gatekeepers individuals with generally similar life experiences and, thus, intuitions about what constitutes “good” work in the field, which in turn reinforces those professional practices and priorities. The final section focuses on problems of eroding the disciplinary hierarchy and broadening the pipeline into the profession.

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“…Entities such as diasporas, nomads, and newly emerging social movements-or, in previous eras, pirates (Mackay 2013)-often extend through communities that cross borders, great physical distances, and multiple cultural contexts (Agnew 1994;Adamson 2016) The relational view offers a way to answer basic questions about the organizational kinds, processes, and contexts constitutive of these forms of life. It helps us understand their conditions for continued existence, and how actors within them navigate an international environment with few resources for those who dwell outside of state institutions.…”

Section: Moving Forward and Making Theorymentioning

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A Relational View of Ontological Security in International Relations

Pratt

2016

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I propose a relational understanding of ontological security, based on a synthesis of pragmatist philosophy and relational sociology. This relocates the referent of ontological security from the self to the social arrangements in where action takes place. It implies that actors seek not to secure the coherence and stability of self in particular, but rather of their broader social context. By taking this relational approach, international relations scholars may avoid methodological difficulties in accessing or defining the cognitive or affective processes shaping certain actors, while honing in on the social embeddedness of action. I outline three causal mechanisms for theorizing ontological security in particular cases: refereeing, performative deference, and obstructive resistance. I do so with reference to prominent methodological frameworks in relational sociology-namely, those based on fields and on figurations, respectively. Finally, I connect this new approach to theorizing ontological security to existing trends in relational international relations research. I argue that it provides a theoretical architecture more sensitive to action and agency than is offered by many existing relational approaches, and is especially well-suited to the study of precarious forms of transnational life.

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Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Cited by 77 publications

References 107 publications

Emerging Discourses on Security—From ‘Traditional’ to ‘Worldly’ and Beyond: An Innovative Indian Perspective

Emerging Discourses on Security—From ‘Traditional’ to ‘Worldly’ and Beyond: An Innovative Indian Perspective

White Man’s IR: An Intellectual Confession

A Relational View of Ontological Security in International Relations

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