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Browning, Christopher S. and Joenniemi, Pertti (2017) Ontological security, self-articulation and the securitization of identity. Cooperation and Conflict, 52 (1). pp. 31-47. doi:10.1177/0010836716653161
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836716653161
Abstract
The concept of ontological security has made increasing headway within International Relations, in particular through its ability to offer alternative explanations of the forces underpinning security dilemmas and conflict in world politics. While welcoming the insights already provided by its application, this article argues that the concept’s use to date has been too much geared to questions of identity-related stability, with change viewed as disturbing and anxiety-inducing. In contrast, the article calls for a more open understanding that: (i) links ontological security to reflexivity and avoids collapsing together the concepts of self, identity and ontological security; (ii) avoids privileging securitization over desecuritization as a means for generating ontological security; and (iii) opens out the concept beyond a narrow concern with questions of conflict and the conduct of violence more towards the theorization of positive change.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International relations, Self, Human security | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cooperation and Conflict | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0010-8367 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 March 2017 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 52 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 31-47 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0010836716653161 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Browning, C. S., & Joenniemi, P. (2017). Ontological security, self-articulation and the securitization of identity. Cooperation and Conflict, 52(1), 31–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836716653161. Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836716653161 | ||||||||||
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