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From righteousness to far right : an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies, Emma McCluskey

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"The "refugee crisis" of 2015 and 2016 in Europe called into question some of our modes of analysis and their implicit assumptions. Even the relative openness of Sweden and Germany and their "humanitarian superpower" statuses eventually turned to hostility towards refugees with justifications for closing borders by political elites articulated clearly along security lines, as well as along more ambiguous lines of 'burden sharing' and already having done enough. In both countries, far right parties made significant inroads into public life, and xenophobia and hostility towards refugees, which was once taboo, has become much more commonplace, not only in these countries but arguably all over the Western world. This book argues that existing approaches to so-called Critical Security Studies, the body of International Relations literature which has gone the furthest to examine the precise mechanisms through which migrants come to be constructed as a threat, goes little way in theorizing the textured, contradictory and often resistant practices of everyday life present within societies. Instead, the field is inclined to focus on what is immediately visible; elite discourse, public policy or the role of security professionals and technologies in normalising unease. Through an in-depth ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden, this book puts forward an anthropological re-gearing of securitization of migration looking at how security is enacted in mundane practices and spaces. In doing so, it demonstrates the great value of working at the intersection between anthropology and critical security studies for understanding the securitization of migration."--
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eng
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xx, 223 pages
Contents
  • Introduction : thinking righteousness and far right relationally
  • Construction of the self : Sweden as morally exceptional
  • Seeing like a good citizen : an anthropology of the governmentality of righteousness
  • Limits of the governmentality of righteousness : counter-conduct and moral panic
  • Anthropological rethinking of critical security studies : reflexivity, Metis, and solidarity
  • Conclusion : the devil in the anthropological detail
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9780773556881
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From righteousness to far right : an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies
Title
From righteousness to far right
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an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies
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Emma McCluskey
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Language
eng
Summary
"The "refugee crisis" of 2015 and 2016 in Europe called into question some of our modes of analysis and their implicit assumptions. Even the relative openness of Sweden and Germany and their "humanitarian superpower" statuses eventually turned to hostility towards refugees with justifications for closing borders by political elites articulated clearly along security lines, as well as along more ambiguous lines of 'burden sharing' and already having done enough. In both countries, far right parties made significant inroads into public life, and xenophobia and hostility towards refugees, which was once taboo, has become much more commonplace, not only in these countries but arguably all over the Western world. This book argues that existing approaches to so-called Critical Security Studies, the body of International Relations literature which has gone the furthest to examine the precise mechanisms through which migrants come to be constructed as a threat, goes little way in theorizing the textured, contradictory and often resistant practices of everyday life present within societies. Instead, the field is inclined to focus on what is immediately visible; elite discourse, public policy or the role of security professionals and technologies in normalising unease. Through an in-depth ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden, this book puts forward an anthropological re-gearing of securitization of migration looking at how security is enacted in mundane practices and spaces. In doing so, it demonstrates the great value of working at the intersection between anthropology and critical security studies for understanding the securitization of migration."--
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1981-
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McCluskey, Emma
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Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
Series statement
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two
Series volume
48
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  • Refugees
  • Internal security
  • Sweden
  • Sweden
  • Sweden
  • Sweden
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From righteousness to far right : an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies, Emma McCluskey
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
Introduction : thinking righteousness and far right relationally -- Construction of the self : Sweden as morally exceptional -- Seeing like a good citizen : an anthropology of the governmentality of righteousness -- Limits of the governmentality of righteousness : counter-conduct and moral panic -- Anthropological rethinking of critical security studies : reflexivity, Metis, and solidarity -- Conclusion : the devil in the anthropological detail
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on1078783691
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24 cm.
Extent
xx, 223 pages
Isbn
9780773556881
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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(OCoLC)1078783691
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From righteousness to far right : an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies, Emma McCluskey
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : thinking righteousness and far right relationally -- Construction of the self : Sweden as morally exceptional -- Seeing like a good citizen : an anthropology of the governmentality of righteousness -- Limits of the governmentality of righteousness : counter-conduct and moral panic -- Anthropological rethinking of critical security studies : reflexivity, Metis, and solidarity -- Conclusion : the devil in the anthropological detail
Control code
on1078783691
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xx, 223 pages
Isbn
9780773556881
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1078783691

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