International Political Science Association, 25th World Congress of Political Science

Description

Panel: Ontological Security, Borders and Margins
Convenor - Prof. Catarina Kinnvall
Chair - Prof. Brent Steele
Discussant - Prof. Ian Manners
This panel takes its point of departure in the historical trajectories of modernity and global change in relation to narrative imaginations of pasts and present. In particular it is focused on the emerging ontological insecurities that are being manifest in terms of the (re)bordering of individuals, communities and states. These ontological insecurities are spurred by global processes of free trade and augmented capital flows as well as by new technologies of communication, information, and travels and not least by current crises and political uncertainties at all levels of analysis. Of importance is how such emerging insecurities can be understood in terms of dislocation, hybridity, and impermanence in conjunction with a search for security and stability and the implications of these processes on contemporary political identities as related to temporality and space. Here we highlight not only the securitizing aspects of identity stability but also the opening up of these processes in terms of refusing or resisting contemporary narratives of closure and essentialization. The panel will deal with critical aspects of bordering, territory and the rewriting of the state in narrative terms, but it will also take seriously the ontological underpinnings of identity as such, challenging common conceptions of these as foundational and singular to account for not only physical boundaries, but also ontological and psychological. The panel will focus on critical attempts to address these new geopolitical and ontological realities from a narrative perspective in which various empirical analyses will illustrate this process.

Papers:
- 'Masculine states and feminine nations: The securitization of gendered borders',
Dr. Christine Agius and Prof. Catarina Kinnvall
- 'Ontological in(security): The political psychology of European borders'
Prof. Jennifer Mitzen
- 'Ontological Security, Bordering and Internal Margins of Transformation'
Dr. John Cash
- 'Who heeds the call? Bordering, ontological security and Russia’s global mission of “traditional values”'
Dr. Emil Edenborg

Period	2018 Jul 22
Event type	Conference
Location	Brisbane, Australia, QueenslandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International