Add to ORKGSecuritization is the move in which an issue is argued to pose an existential threat to a referent object and has to be resolved with extraordinary measures. Speech acts are considered to be the starting point for the securitization of an issue. This thesis viewed governmental counter-terrorism strategies as potential carriers of speech acts - hence the strategies could constitute the start of terrorism becoming securitized by a government. By using a generic speech act typology created by Holger Stritzel, which combines critical discourse analysis with the securitization theory on Swedish and British counter-terrorism strategies, the thesis identifies a speech act in the most recent British strategy. The second finding is that in the case ...
This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. C...
This essay analyses the concept of the securitisation of migration in the EU in light of the ongoing...
Securitization theory argues that “security” is a speech act. By talking security, an actor tries to...
Securitization is the move in which an issue is argued to pose an existential threat to a referent o...
This thesis identifies and examines the securitisation process of extremism, applying Securitisation...
Since securitization processes are agued to be able to create excessive power to actors, there are a...
The United Kingdom experienced three devastating terrorist attacks in the spring of 2017. All three ...
The language we use when we talk about terrorism has an important role to play in the discursive con...
Traditionally, the research conducted in the field of security studies have been primarily focused o...
Terrorism is being seen as one of the most important threats against society. However, the response ...
The threat from homegrown terrorism in the United States is called a new face of the threat from ter...
Language and discourse can create a space where political decision-making and action is accepted des...
The thesis deals with the theme of counter-terrorism legislation in two West European countries, nam...
After over two decades of renewing temporary counterterrorism laws in Britain from the early 1970s, ...
This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. C...
This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. C...
This essay analyses the concept of the securitisation of migration in the EU in light of the ongoing...
Securitization theory argues that “security” is a speech act. By talking security, an actor tries to...
Securitization is the move in which an issue is argued to pose an existential threat to a referent o...
This thesis identifies and examines the securitisation process of extremism, applying Securitisation...
Since securitization processes are agued to be able to create excessive power to actors, there are a...
The United Kingdom experienced three devastating terrorist attacks in the spring of 2017. All three ...
The language we use when we talk about terrorism has an important role to play in the discursive con...
Traditionally, the research conducted in the field of security studies have been primarily focused o...
Terrorism is being seen as one of the most important threats against society. However, the response ...
The threat from homegrown terrorism in the United States is called a new face of the threat from ter...
Language and discourse can create a space where political decision-making and action is accepted des...
The thesis deals with the theme of counter-terrorism legislation in two West European countries, nam...
After over two decades of renewing temporary counterterrorism laws in Britain from the early 1970s, ...
This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. C...
This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. C...
This essay analyses the concept of the securitisation of migration in the EU in light of the ongoing...
Securitization theory argues that “security” is a speech act. By talking security, an actor tries to...