1. Introduction, Thierry Balzacq
PART I: Desecuritization
2. Just and Unjust Desecuritizations, Rita Floyd
3. The Political Limits of Desecuritization: Security, Arms Trade, and the EU’s Economic Target, Thierry Balzacq, Sara Depauw, and Sarah Léonard
4. Security as Ambiguous Universality? The Roma Contesting Security, Claudia Aradau
PART II: Resistance
5. Contesting and Resisting Security in Post-Mao China, Juha A. Vuori
6. The Hysterics' Resistance : Or, How Dominant Security Discourses and Exceptional Powers came to Be Reined In after 9/11, Florent Blanc
7. Rebellion Against Biometrics in France, Pierre Piazza
8. Resistance and Counter-Resistance: The Field of Surveillance and the Neutralization Efforts of Subjects and Agents, Gary T. Marx
PART III: Resilience
9. Resiliencism: Premises and Promises in Desecuritization Research, Philippe Bourbeau
10. Resilience as Standard: Risks, Hazards and Threats, Peter Rogers
11. The Pandemic Staging-grounds of Resilience: How Pandemic Scares Promote the Production of Prepared Societies, Mika Aaltola
Part IV: Emancipation
12. Defusing the Logic of Securitization: A Case for ‘Security as Emancipation’, João Nunes
13. Contesting Border Security: Emancipation and Asylum in the Australian Context, Matt McDonald
14. Conclusion, Lene Hansen
Bibliography
Biography
Thierry Balzacq is Professor of Political Science at the University of Namur and Visiting Professor at the University of Louvain, in Belgium. He is editor of Securitization Theory (Routledge, 2011) and The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs (2009).
