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Publication details [#63079]

Ritchie, Marnie. 2017. Security stupidity. Journal of multicultural discourses 12 (4) : 349–365.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper suggests that securitization is underwritten by stupidity, determined as a shared social exposure to limits which condition the possibility of thinking, knowing, and communicating about threats and responses. This conceptualization of stupidity portrays security threats not as gaps in information that can be filled by a knowing subject, but encounters with difference arising from persons, communities, or nations which threaten that subject with awareness of its own stupidity.