Module 6

Spaces of Security-

inside/Outside

Module Materials

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There are no formal lectures this term and instead, our meetings will be more of a seminar style. They are primarily based on your issue presentations and discussions. As discussed and as outlined HERE, your presentations will be pre-recorded with a link to your presentation posted on the OWL FORUMS HERE BY FRIDAY so that all of your classmates can view it before class. Class time will be devoted to your discussions and other things like comments from me and the occasional guest speaker.

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Week 15- Jan 31

Inside: Risk Society and “Homeland” Security

ISSUE PRESENTATIONS- UK PREVENT; 2021 US Capitol Riots;

COVID conspiracy theories and online radicalization

Stockdale, Liam PD (2013) “Imagined Futures and Exceptional Presents: A conceptual critique of ‘pre-emptive security’” Global Change, Peace and Security 25(2): 141-157
Heath‐Kelly, C. (2013). Counter‐Terrorism and the Counterfactual: Producing the ‘Radicalisation’Discourse and the UK PREVENT Strategy. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 15(3), 394-415.
Argentino M-A, and A. Amarasingam (2021) "They Got It All under Control: Q Anon, Conspiracy Theories, and the New Threats to Canadian National Security" in L.West, L., Juneau, T., & Amarasingam, A. (Eds.) Stress Tested: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security. University of Calgary Press. https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/114134/9781773852447_chapter01.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

Week 16- Feb 7

Outside: Pre-emption and States of Exception

ISSUE PRESENTATIONS- Guantanamo; Maher Arar Case;

The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes

Rens van Munster (2004) “The War on Terrorism: When the Exception Becomes the Rule” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, vol. 17 (2), pp. 141-53
Huysmans, Jef (2004) “Minding Exceptions: The Politics of Insecurity and Liberal Democracy” Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 3, pp. 321-341
Foot, Rosemary (2005) “Torture: The struggle over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era” International Relations 20(2): 131-151
O'Driscoll, C. (2008). Fear and trust: The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and the war on terror. Millennium, 36(2), 339-360.

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