BISA 2023 Conference

Constructing and managing ‘securitization’

22 Jun 2023, 13:15

1h 30m

Ledmore, Hilton

Panel Political Violence, Conflict and Transnational Activism

Description

Securitization as threat formation and management process is utilized for different reasons by diverging actors across space. The panel looks at visual configurations of power and political construction of sight and practices; how to make use of cultural knowledge in strategy to counter an insurgency; how and why securitization of ethnic minorities, as well as animal rights and environmental groups and organizations in different cultural contexts are constructed; how the securitization as a process and policy could be better understood.

Subcontributions

• Bordered Violences and Unruly Spaces of Belonging : Pellet Guns and the Right to Maim in Kashmir
• Ordering Securitisation, Spatialising Bourdieu: Saudi Arabia's role and the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
• Cultural Turn in Counter-Insurgency operations: Analysing the essentialised and instrumental use of culture in United States' military operation in Afghanistan
• Why the ‘Good’ Refugee is a Bad Idea: Tracing the Intellectual Roots of Ethnocultural Conflict in Myanmar
• The British Securitization of the Radical Environmentalist and Animal Rights Movement (REAR)