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Fall 2003: Facets Of (In) Security
Facets of (In) Security: Ordinarity of the Exceptional (PDF, 3 pages, 16.6 KB) , by Didier Bigo & Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet
Didier Bigo and Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet underline how our relation to violence is first and foremost made of a group of dissimilar images and practices with various facets. According to this, is “saying” the security not starting from a particular and sometimes arbitrary vision and knowledge of the difference between what violence is and what would not be? The (in) securisation considered as an extrapolating process of the threatening danger and fear is central in our contemporary societies. The two authors emphasise the necessity of analysing the ordinary and the exceptional.
Developments and Regulations of Popular Illegalisms in France since the Beginning of the 1980s (PDF, 37 pages, 106.2 KB) , by Laurent Bonelli
Faced to the multiplication of images, discourses and knowledge (of the media, the police and academic) on the insecurity in French suburbs, Laurent Bonelli suggests a historical and sociological analysis of the processes and dynamics of stating the forms of violence qualified as a ”social problem”. The author details in this article the logic of this specific enunciation and public formulation of (in) security in suburbs and focuses most particularly on the police management repertories.
A Narrative Analysis of a Process of Collapse: The Confrontation between the Volkspolizei and the Demonstrations of Leipzig, 9 October 1989 (PDF, 20 pages, 61 KB) , by Fabien Jobard
Fabien Jobard suggests a precise and detailed reading of the October 9th 1989 Leipzig demonstrations, preceding the fall of the Berlin war by putting into question the collective action political theories in order to understand and analyse this phenomenon. The author offers a narrative analysis of these demonstration days in Eastern Germany and thereby states the shifting of sense, what motivated mobilisation and the circumstantial configurations rising and recomposing during the action. The author opens new perspectives in the analysis of collective action.
The new Policies of Controlling Hooliganism in Europe: from the Fusion of Security to the Multi-positioning of Threat (PDF, 15 pages, 47.7 KB) , by Anastassia Tsoukala
Anastassia Tsoukala offers an analysis of the evolution of hooliganism management by the police. She considers the Europeanization dynamics and their interference with national police systems in the management of this particular form of violence. The author proceeds to a thorough study of the qualifications and constructions of the hooligan threat in Europe in order to understand how, from the 1990s onward, we assist to an Europeanization of the question as well as a homogenisation dynamic for the police modes of control.
The Construction of a Security-Community in Europe: the Case of the Nordic Countries (PDF, 28 pages, 78.7 KB) , by Louis Clerc, Cyril Coulet & Nicolas Wuest-Famose
Debates on the common security and defence European policies have concentrated, in the context of the European Union, on the military aspect more than on the civilian and non-military crisis management aspects. Louis Clerc, Cyril Coulet and Nicolas Wuest-Famôse expose on the basis of in depth enquiries how Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark consider their participation to the construction of this security community in Europe.
Agamben Confronted with the Judges: Sovereignty, Exception and Antiterrorism (PDF, 28 pages, 81.5 KB) , by Elspeth Guild
The ”anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act” promulgated by the British authorities in December 2001 enable a power of detention for an undetermined period of time. Elspeth Guild analyses in this article the judicial answer to this detention in the light of Giorgio Agamben's theoretical reflections on sovereignty and provides a strong critique of the latter's notion of exception.
The United States and the Future of Multilateralism (PDF, 17 pages, 52.8 KB) , by Guillaume Devin
Guillaume Devin suggests analysing in this article the factors that could explain the recurrent ambiguity of American positions in terms of the multilateral co-operation. The American position indeed oscillates between phases of strong involvement and phases of retreat. Are we faced to a structural ambivalence? The author emphasises that multilateralism is a privileged international co-operation vector, and as such, both a rational and a normative choice. Through his analysis, Guillaume Devin explores the idea according to which the future of multilateralism is not only a matter of American decisions.