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Agonistic security: Transcending (de/re)constructive divides in critical security studies
dc.contributor.author | Tulumello, Simone | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-16T13:59:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-16T13:59:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article is a contribution to transcending the dichotomy between deconstruction and reconstruction in critical security studies. In the first part, I review dominant (Western/liberal) logics of security and the main strands of critical security studies to argue for the need to: overcome the liberal framework of the balance among rights and freedom, with its inherent imbrication with the fantasy of absolute security; and, contra the ultimate conclusions of deconstructive critique, to take the desire for security seriously at the same time. By advocating for embracing the tensions that surface at this intersection, I then move to my reconstructive endeavor. I set out a meta-theory with both analytical and normative nature, agonistic security, inspired by the political theory developed by Mouffe and Laclau. Building on the opposition between antagonism and agonism, I argue that security belongs to the “political”, and that it constitutes a field of struggle for politicization. I then argue for three conceptual shifts, which concretely define agonistic security: i) from an absolute/static to a relational/dynamic understanding of security; ii) from universalism to pluralism at a world scale; and iii) from the dominance of individual rights in Western/liberal thinking toward security as a collective endeavor. In conclusion, I take a step back and discuss the implications of agonistic security for the role of critique in security studies. | pt_PT |
dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
dc.identifier.citation | Tulumello S. (2021). Agonistic security: Transcending (de/re)constructive divides in critical security studies. Security Dialogue, 52(4), 325-342 (First Published September 16, 2020). DOI: 10.1177/0967010620945081 | pt_PT |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0967010620945081 | pt_PT |
dc.identifier.issn | 1460-3640 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44383 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | pt_PT |
dc.relation | DL57/2016/CP1441/CT0007 | pt_PT |
dc.relation | UID/SOC/50013/2017 | pt_PT |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0967010620945081 | pt_PT |
dc.subject | agonism and antagonism | pt_PT |
dc.subject | emancipation | pt_PT |
dc.subject | human rights | pt_PT |
dc.subject | right to security | pt_PT |
dc.subject | security logics | pt_PT |
dc.subject | vulnerability | pt_PT |
dc.title | Agonistic security: Transcending (de/re)constructive divides in critical security studies | pt_PT |
dc.type | journal article | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
oaire.citation.title | Security Dialogue | pt_PT |
person.familyName | Tulumello | |
person.givenName | Simone | |
person.identifier.ciencia-id | 1515-AE55-3809 | |
person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-6660-3432 | |
person.identifier.rid | O-2248-2016 | |
person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 56382436700 | |
rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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