“If you see something, say something” - affective atmospheres of governance within the counter-terror state
Topics: Social Geography
, Qualitative Research
, Urban Geography
Keywords: citizenship, infrastructures, securitization, affective governance, counter-terror state, affective atmospheres, more-than-human, atmo-politics
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Friday
Session Start / End Time: 2/25/2022 02:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/25/2022 03:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 58
Authors:
Katharina Ciax, University of Jena
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Abstract
Starting from the war on terror, securitization of citizen bodies and urban spaces has become the focus of national and international politics with high symbolic powers in the past decades. (In)security, surveillance, and control have formed strong narratives of the “new normal”, that no longer affect everyday life solely within discursive spheres, but is going beyond. The everyday experience of governance and control is growingly enforced by feelings and emotions, giving rise to a new type of national membership that is constituted by the response to affective politics.
This paper, therefore, sheds light on how atmo-politics of threat, fear, and terrorism are produced and used to not only strengthen the project of nation building but also redefine citizens into active agents of vigilance and security; addressing them “as raw nerve endings, part of a national nervous system” (Masco 2014: 24). I will approach everyday affective atmospheres with the help of qualitative non-representational research methods, by focusing on affective, sensory, imaginary, as well as material phenomena of urban governance in Berlin, Germany.
Masco, Joseph (2014): The Theater of Operations. National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Durham: Duke University Press.
“If you see something, say something” - affective atmospheres of governance within the counter-terror state
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