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Identity and desecuritisation: the pitfalls of conflating ontological and physical security

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorRumelili, Bahar
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:27:19Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractHow can the Self move from a securitised to a non-securitised relation with the Other while its very identity depends on its relation to the Other? Within the existing critical approaches to security, this question, which encapsulates the complex interrelationship between identity and desecuritisation, has not been explored in a systematic manner. This article builds on the emerging literature on ontological security to develop a two-layered framework of security as both ontological and physical, wherein the relationship between identity and desecuritisation can be better analysed. I argue that the conflation of ontological and physical security within the existing critical approaches to security has generated an insufficient appreciation of how identity expands the possibilities for desecuritisation while imposing new limits. In particular, the framework offered in this article highlights the possibilities for achieving ontological security in the absence of securitisation and limits to desecuritisation that stem from ontological insecurity.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume18
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/jird.2013.22
dc.identifier.eissn1581-1980
dc.identifier.issn1408-6980
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84921478998
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2013.22
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/11690
dc.identifier.wos349583700003
dc.keywordsDesecuritisation
dc.keywordsIdentity
dc.keywordsOntological security
dc.keywordsSelf/other relations
dc.keywordsMinority rights
dc.keywordsForeign policy
dc.keywordsPolitics
dc.keywordsPower
dc.keywordsSecuritization
dc.keywordsSelf
dc.keywordsNationalism
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.keywordsStates
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofJournal Of International Relations And Development
dc.subjectInternational relations
dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.titleIdentity and desecuritisation: the pitfalls of conflating ontological and physical security
dc.typeJournal Article
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