All these appliances show the critical potential of securitization theory and its special ability to expose problematic power-practices. So racist? Nay.
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Racist? Nay.
#SecuritizationTheory
has a rare ability to expose power-practices where western identity is constructed in particular ways to ‘talk something up’ on the security agenda...
#SecuritizationTheory
is racist, anti-black, methodologically white, civilizationist & supremacist. Claimed article by Howell&Richter-Montpetit in SecurityDialogue Aug19. The theory’s creators
#BarryBuzan
& I now got reply publ’ed w many hurdles
#SdScandal
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During the past 10+ years, I have taken the theory to the case of the Pakistani Taliban in order to explain their securitization processes: what they fear, what they claim to defend, and how they justify extraordinary measures...
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have also taken the theory to study diverse manifestations of secularism in various western countries in order to show how the concept of secularism – one of the reference points in value-debates across the west – has a securitizing potential...
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Finally, I have, together with my colleague Manni Crone, applied the theory to study different cases where Muslims, in a Danish context, have been securitized, and thereby expelled from ‘normalcy’...
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