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Sarah Da Mota
University of Coimbra, International Relations, Faculty Member
- Critical Security Studies, Political Philosophy, Critical Terrorism Studies, NATO, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ethics, and 8 morePolitical Science, International Relations, Critical Theory, Social Sciences, History, Social Psychology and Political Science, Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR), and Space Explorationedit
- PhD in International Relations (University of Coimbra)edit
This book critically engages with NATO’s two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals. By rethinking the seemingly natural assumption of these two referent objects, it suggests the epistemological importance of an... more
This book critically engages with NATO’s two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals. By rethinking the seemingly natural assumption of these two referent objects, it suggests the epistemological importance of an unconscious dimension to understand meaning formation and behaviour change in international security.
The book provides a historicised and genealogical approach of the idea of civilisation that is at the core of the Alliance, in which human needs, narratives, and security arrangements are interconnected. It suggests that there is a Civilised Subject of Security at the core of modern Western security that has constantly produced civilised and secure subjects around the world, which explains NATO’s emergence around a civilisational referent. The book then proceeds by considering the Individualisation of Security after the Cold War as another stage of the civilising process, based on NATO’s military operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
https://www.palgrave.com/cn/book/9783319744087#aboutBook
The book provides a historicised and genealogical approach of the idea of civilisation that is at the core of the Alliance, in which human needs, narratives, and security arrangements are interconnected. It suggests that there is a Civilised Subject of Security at the core of modern Western security that has constantly produced civilised and secure subjects around the world, which explains NATO’s emergence around a civilisational referent. The book then proceeds by considering the Individualisation of Security after the Cold War as another stage of the civilising process, based on NATO’s military operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
https://www.palgrave.com/cn/book/9783319744087#aboutBook
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This article analyses the critical connections between drones as lethal technological devices, visibility, and the very possibility of politics. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s core postulates on politics, modern security and society, it... more
This article analyses the critical connections between drones as lethal technological devices, visibility, and the very possibility of politics. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s core postulates on politics, modern security and society, it problematises the political implications of using drones as a prominent security instrument in contemporary life. This reading is unpacked through the concept of visibility as a critical reference to analyse how security policies are dealt with politically. It suggests that drones have operated as an instrument of double invisibility, both to those living in the contexts where they are employed, and to those under whose name they are being used. The consequences of this invisibility for political life and the practice of security are also discussed in the light of the policy under the Obama administration.
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Although space exploration has been evolving increasingly rapidly, at the material, technological and economic levels, IR has been generally dismissive of the topic, and almost exclusively focused on geopolitical approaches. As... more
Although space exploration has been evolving increasingly rapidly, at the material, technological and economic levels, IR has been generally dismissive of the topic, and almost exclusively focused on geopolitical approaches. As traditional paradigms of IR have encapsulated outer space affairs in an epistemic parallax – a locus of epistemic irreconcilability – time urges to rethink the fundamental purpose of doing (social) science. It is thereby suggested that, although it would be much more useful and progressive for humanity as a whole that they both address the same problems in the same epistemic vein, the state of the world and IR Theory have rather moved at a different speed. While outer space affairs reveal the depth of that epistemological and phenomenological displacement, it is argued that they constitute a critical object of study with the potential to enable IR to move forward along with the state of the world.