The neurotic citizen

Legitimacy breakdown? Immigration, security, national cohesion and nativism

“…A propos de ce processus, Didier Bigo parle de « gouvernementalité par l'inquiétude 141 », Engin Isin de contrôle par la production systé-mique par l'Etat de citoyens névrotiques qu'effraie l'invocation par les médias, experts, politiciens et gestionnaires de risques sanitaires, écologiques, terroristes, humanitaires, financiers et d'autres dangers (pédophilie, délinquance locale, violence urbaine, drogues) 142 .…”

RE-PREF: Support for REassessment of PREFerences of Non-functional Requirements for Better Decision-Making in Self-Adaptive Systems

“…These officials determine, based on the self-same set of values, the verity of the relationship and the quality of the migrant that substantiate it. This lived experience suggests some interesting parallels to the idea of the neurotic citizen articulated by Isin (2004). Taking the individual as the unit of analysis, he writes the following:…”

Embodied experiences in international volunteering: power-body relations and performative ontologies

“…On the one hand, the body's faculties are understood as an 'object-target' of interested parties (Anderson, 2012). From this perspective, powerful actors circulate emotions and affects to 'make things happen', and work in this area recognises and explores the concepts of "neuroliberalism" (Isin, 2004), "affective governance" (Hook, 2007), "affective politics" (Ahmed, 2004;Barnett et al, 2008) and "affective capitalism" (Illouz, 2007). On the other hand, the body is conceptualised more as an autonomous actor in a field of emergent, co-created and co-constitutive affects and emotions (Griffiths, 2014a).…”