Lakota experiences of (in)security: cosmology and ontological security
In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 33-62
ISSN: 1468-4470
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In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 33-62
ISSN: 1468-4470
In: Contemporary security policy, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 236-263
ISSN: 1743-8764
In: Contemporary security policy, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 236-263
ISSN: 1352-3260, 0144-0381
World Affairs Online
In: European security, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 266-279
ISSN: 1746-1545
In: International political sociology: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 369-386
ISSN: 1749-5679
World Affairs Online
In: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Theoretical Framework -- 4. Imagining the Bosnian Serb Ethnic Identity: A Historical Overview -- 5. Discourse Analysis of Securitisation Acts of the Political Elite in Republika Srpska -- 6. Perceptions of the Voters in Republika Srpska on the Internat and External Other -- 7. Conclusions.
In: Global change, peace & security, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 85-91
ISSN: 1478-1166
In: Journal of international relations and development, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 559-583
ISSN: 1581-1980
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association
ISSN: 0010-8367
In: International Political Sociology, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 369-386
In: Foreign policy analysis, S. n/a-n/a
ISSN: 1743-8594
In: Media, Culture & Society, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 573-598
ISSN: 1460-3675
In: International studies review, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 572-597
ISSN: 1468-2486
AbstractThis article utilizes van Gennep's neglected theory of territorial passages to answer two key questions in the study of ontological security (OS) in migration. First, why do the members of the receiving society lose their perceived sense of OS in face of a mass of strangers arriving at their gates? Second, how, if at all, do they attempt to reconstitute it while incorporating the strangers into their world? Following the recent call within OS studies in international relations (IR) to spell out the social mechanisms that facilitate the anxiety and uncertainty of the agents, I use the case of the German societal response to the 2015 refugee crisis to demonstrate that van Gennep's classical approach, far from being structural and functionalist, offers an advanced, power-informed, and processual perspective for uncovering a possible sociosymbolic mechanism behind the perceived "losing" and "re-finding" of OS in migratory encounters. The article delineates the principles of a "thick" approach to OS in migration, explains how van Gennep's theory adds to this approach, and highlights the ultimate unattainability of OS as an essentialist category that is either "present" or "absent" throughout the migratory encounter. It concludes by discussing the added value of van Gennep's theory to the study of OS in the contemporary global milieu of the "age of migration."
In: International journal / CIC, Canadian International Council: ij ; Canada's journal of global policy analysis, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 435-453
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In: The British journal of politics & international relations: BJPIR, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 211-235
ISSN: 1467-856X
Ontological security theory posits that states seek to provide their citizens not just physical but also cognitive security, mostly through routinised foreign policy practices that reinforce notions of the national Self. Several studies established this theoretical assertion at the individual level, using various qualitative methods. This study adds to the literature by taking an experimental approach to provide further empirical support. It develops a novel index for the measurement of foreign policy behaviour's effect on individual citizens' ontological security and employs it in a survey experiment. The experiment examines whether Jewish-Israelis experience change in their sense of ontological security due to their state's deviation from its long-standing offensive–defensive security doctrine. The findings demonstrate that citizens indeed form an attachment to their state's foreign policy practices and that deviation from them can impair their sense of ontological security. This suggests that seemingly rational, strategically warranted policies might sometimes bear unexpected costs for policymakers.