Governing (in)securities
Tuesday 4 July, University of York
Keynote: Dr Debbie Lisle (QUB), Crisis in Slow Motion: the Stubborn Habits of Migration
The migration crisis has seen multiple apparent failures in the European project – of solidarity, response and co-operation. In this sense, the new politics of (in)security applies as much to the troubled internal dynamics of the Union as it does to the management of insecure and vulnerable migrants.
There is, however, political potential in the deployment of crisis language and the invocation of novel (in)securities. That is, the dynamic of disintegration and collapse that has accompanied the European response (from the re-assertion of sovereign borders to the rejection of EU initiatives by individual member states) has been productive of new authorities, interventions and relationships in the field of migration and security.
Key here is the devolution of bordering practices to non-EU partners (across Africa, Asia and beyond), the inexorable rise of private security authorities and expertise, and the wholesale turn to technologies to secure borders and manage migration.
Motivated by a concern to understand what the claim to novelty allows governing bodies to do in the name of security, this workshop will explore (but is not limited to) the following questions:
• What (new) forms of expertise and authority have arisen in the wake of the migration crisis?
• How is the migration/security field spreading away from European borders, to encompass new partners and actors?
• How are the divisions between internal and external security further dissolved (and reinstated) within the ‘crisis’?
We invite paper proposals (abstracts of 200 words) addressing these and related questions in different areas from a theoretical, empirical, and/or normative perspective.
The workshop is particularly interested in papers that examine the social, political and ethical dynamics of knowledge production within the crisis. What are the challenges of producing critical knowledge from within situated relationships between researchers, security and migration authorities?
Please send abstracts to Alex Hall (alexandra.hall@york.ac.uk) by Friday 28 April 2017.
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