Militarism and its limits: Sociological insights on security assemblages in the Sahel:
Philippe M. Frowd,Adam Sandor +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The authors assesses the concepts of militarism and militarization in relation to contemporary security interventions in the Sahel, a region increasingly understood through the prisms of violence, and assesses how these concepts can be used in the context of military intervention.Abstract:
This article assesses the concepts of militarism and militarization in relation to contemporary security interventions in the Sahel, a region increasingly understood through the prisms of violence,...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Militarism and security: Dialogue, possibilities and limits:
Anna Stavrianakis,Maria Stern +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the relationship between security and militarism, both as analytical tools and as objects of analysis, and the possibilities of fruitful exchange between knowledges produced about these concepts or practices.
Journal ArticleDOI
Return of the generals? Global militarism in Africa from the Cold War to the present:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the continuities and changes of global militarism in Africa from the Cold War to the present and argue that today's militarism is suffused with the values of security and securitization that gives it its contemporary political force.
Journal ArticleDOI
Military responses to COVID-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic is giving way to increases in military engagements in health-related activities at the domestic level as discussed by the authors, and the dynamics which underpin each type of military involvement follow context-specific military political legacies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Confronting the colonial: The (re)production of ‘African’ exceptionalism in critical security and military studies:
TL;DR: The authors argue that the current selective uses of securitization and militarism/militarization in "Africa" scholarship tend to recreate troublesome distinctions between developed and underdeveloped spaces within theory and methodology, and highlight the selective nature of such application and probe into the potential reasons for and effects of this selectiveness.
Journal ArticleDOI
Militarism, states and resistance in Africa: exploring colonial patterns in stabilisation missions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that stabilisation missions reproduce the patterns that constituted colonial states, and that stabilization's militarisation's effects on African history follow African historiography.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Words, Images, Enemies: Securitization and International Politics
TL;DR: The theory of "securitization" developed by the Copenhagen School provides one of the most innovative, productive, and yet controversial avenues of research in contemporary security studies as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Security! What Do You Mean?: From Concept to Thick Signifier
TL;DR: The main argument is that security mediates the relation between life and death and that this articulates a double security problematic — a daily security and an ontological security problematic.
Journal ArticleDOI
The future of critical security studies: Ethics and the politics of security
TL;DR: In this article, critical security studies has come to occupy a prominent place within the lexicon of International Relations and security studies over the past two decades, while disagreement exists about the bo...
Journal ArticleDOI
Border security as practice: An agenda for research:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the practices of power-brokers involved in the securing of borders, focusing on the everyday practices of those who are appointed to carry it out.
Journal ArticleDOI
Between Police and Military: The New Security Agenda and the Rise of Gendarmeries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the distinction between internal and external security has become increasingly blurred as a consequence of the emergence of a growing number of transnational risks and challenges and the growing significance of intermediary, i.e., gendarmerie-type, or paramilitary, security forces.