Securitization Revisited : Contemporary Applications and Insights (Edition 1)

• Main Author: Butler, Michael J
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 23.07.2019; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies
• Subjects: Climate Change; Conflict Management; constructivism; Copenhagen School; Critical Security; empirical applications; History; International Relations; International Relations Theory; Military; National security; National security-Case studies; Political Science; processes; securitization; Security (National & International); Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Securitization Framework; Wilton Park; Copenhagen School; Applying Securitization Theory; Ivory Coast; Vice Versa; Securitization Process; Ips; Ledra Palace Hotel; Conflict Management Activities; Civil Society; RSCT; WPS Agendum; Desecuritization Processes; Securitization Acts; Critical Security Studies; NGO Center; Securitization Theory; Securitization Research; Turkish Cypriot; Intergroup Contact; Greek Cypriot; RSCs; Securitization Moves; Security Studies Field
• ISBN: 0429622279; 9780429622274; 0367150379; 9780367150372; 0367785234; 9780367785239
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429054648

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become ‘securitized’ and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are. A generation after the introduction of the concept of securitization to the security studies field, this book engages with how securitization and desecuritization ‘works’ within and across a wide range of security domains including terrorism and counter-terrorism, climate change, sexual and gender-based violence, inter-state and intra-state conflict, identity, and memory in various geographic and social contexts. Blending theory and application, the contributors to this volume – drawn from different disciplinary, ontological, and geographic ‘spaces’ – orient their investigations around three common analytical objectives: revealing deficiencies in and through application(s) of securitization; considering securitization through speech-acts and discourse as well as other mechanisms; and exposing latent orthodoxies embedded in securitization research. The volume demonstrates the dynamic and elastic quality of securitization and desecuritization as concepts that bear explanatory fruit when applied across a wide range of security issues, actors, and audiences. It also reveals the deficiencies in restricting securitization research to an overly narrow set of issues, actors, and mechanisms.