Call for Papers- European Security Culture
Anticipate and Preempt: Speculative Security Politics and the European Union
We invite paper proposals from scholars across the social sciences and humanities studying anticipatory security politics in Europe from multiple perspectives.
The security politics of the European Union and its member states are increasingly geared toward preemptive and anticipatory objectives. From countering radicalisation to terrorist proscription and listing; from critical infrastructure protection to cybersecurity; from tracing movements of persons across borders to tracking terrorism financing, new security practices attempt to interrupt potential threats at the earliest possible stage.
They aim to imagine, anticipate, and preempt dangers that are understood as unpredictable yet potentially catastrophic; and to ‘connect the dots’ of potential future threat. Such measures are often articulated in the sphere of counterterrorism, but they are increasingly invoked in relation to organised crime, migration, climate politics and financial security.
Themes of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Preemption, precaution, premediation, speculation
- Anticipatory knowledge practices like stress testing and scenario planning
- Cultural mediation and imagination of threat and suspicion
- Anticipatory visualisations
- Affect and preemption
- Anticipation and preemption in: financial security; climate politics; or cybersecurity
- Terrorism trials & law
- Databases, dataveillance, data mining, algorithms
- Countering radicalisation
- Critical infrastructure protection and civil protection
- Terrorist listing and asset freezing
- Secrecy and/or intelligence
- EU security bureaucracy
- Preemption and international law
- EU internal security agendas
- Control and surveillance of borders and/or migrants
- Transnational security and/or police relations
- ‘Resilience’ as a security concept
- Security technology and the private sector
Procedure
Please submit paper proposals (200-300 words) by December 1, 2012 to Marijn Hoijtink: M.Hoijtink@uva.nl
Participants will be notified by December 20, 2012.The workshop is organized March 4-5 2013 by the European Security Culture project at the University of Amsterdam, coordinated by Marieke de Goede. It is sponsored by the Dutch Council for Scientific Research (NWO), and the COST World Financial Crisis working group ‘Credit, Crisis and Culture.’