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Exploring Entangled InSecurity Becomings in the Aftermath of War & Ebola

Talk by Theresa Ammann, IMC & Anthropology, AU

Info about event

Time

Tuesday 26 September 2017,  at 11:00 - 13:00

Location

IMC Meeting Room, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483-312, 8000 Aarhus C

Organizer

IMC

Theresa Ammann, PhD Student, Interacting Minds Centre & Anthropology, and recently submitted her thesis. 

 

Abstract

Within International Relations (IR) and Security Studies, understandings of and approaches to security have been many and varied. Traditional realist conceptualisations of security as a state of existence to be achieved by states through military power and economic means have long been challenged by Feminist, Critical, and Human Security Studies. This dissertation builds on these nontraditional approaches and follows their recent turn to posthumanism to propose a postHuman Security approach. This approach enables an analysis of the 2014-2016 Liberian Ebola outbreak where human and nonhuman matter is considered in all its entanglements across conventional levels of IR; i.e., individual, community, national, regional, global.

In this talk, I present the wider entanglements of the Ebola crisis and propose a postHuman understanding of security as a continuous process of inSecurity becoming.