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Engaging the narrative in ontological (in)security theory: insights from feminist IR / Delehanty, Will K; Steele, Brent

Delehanty, Will K	Journal Article
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2011.

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Ontological security theory (OST) provides a unique account of how state Self-identity is formed and reformed in international relations. OST postulates that state Self-identity is usefully understood by inquiring into the foundation of a state's sense of Self: its autobiographical narrative. We seek to amend this line of argument by further suggesting that the autobiographical narratives of states are 'gendered'. Feminist theorizing about the relationship between gender and power implies that the dominant autobiographical narrative of state Self-identity is 'gendered' masculine. The power of this masculinized autobiographical narrative flows from an 'internal othering' process of counter 'feminine' autobiographical narratives that exist alongside the masculinized autobiographical narrative. Our goal is to suggest that opportunities do arise for counter 'feminine' narratives to challenge the dominant autobiographical narrative due to their interdependence and we explicate two practices by which masculinized narratives can be engaged, challenged and disrupted.

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Ontology ; Security Theory ; Ontological Security Theory ; OST

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Neutrollization: industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization / Kurowska, Xymena

Kurowska, Xymena	Journal Article
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This article considers the significance of trolling for security processes through a contextual analysis of industrialized pro-Kremlin trolling in the Russian blogosphere. The publicity surrounding Russia’s hacking activities in international politics conceals the significance of the domestic trolling culture in Russia and its role in the ‘trolling turn’ in Russia’s foreign policy. We contextually identify the practice of ‘neutrollization’ – a type of localized desecuritization where the regime adopts trolling to prevent being cast as a societal security threat by civil society. Neutrollization relies on counterfeit internet activism, ostensibly originating from the citizenry, that produces political disengagement by breeding radical doubt in a manner that is non-securitizing. Rather than advocating a distinct political agenda, and in contrast to conventional understandings of the operations of propaganda, neutrollization precludes the very possibility of meaning, obviating the need to block the internet in an openly authoritarian manner. It operates by preventing perlocution – that is, the social consequences of the security speech act. This prevention is achieved through the breaking or disrupting of the context in which acts of securitization could possibly materialize, and is made possible by a condition of ‘politics without telos’ that is different from the varieties of depoliticization more familiar in Western societies.

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Russia ; Desecuritization ; Security Theory ; Post-Truth ; Trolling

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