Abstract
The purpose of this introduction is to concisely present The Morality of Security: A Theory of Just Securitization so that those unfamiliar with this work are better able to engage with the symposium. The book develops a Theory of Just Securitisation outlining when securitisation is morally permissible. Securitisation, here, refers to more than a securitising speech act coupled with a legitimising audience's tacit or actual acceptance of the threat and defence framing. Arguably the question of the morality of securitisation is most pertinent when the same encompasses the use of measures and conduct that most reasonable persons would ordinarily (that is, in times when there is no relevant threat) consider unacceptable, largely because of the harm and/or the violence risked or entailed.
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A little unnerving, any scholar can only dream of a symposium dedicated to their work
As the BLM website states: ‘Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.’45 These factors are sufficient, I argue, for BLM to constitute a non-state group for the purposes of evaluating the possibility of just securitisation
Applying Floyd’s theory of just securitisation to the case of BLM and the threat of white supremacy illustrates the value of her approach in recognising that non-state protest groups facing existential threats from unjust and oppressive states may engage in securitisation
Summary
There must be an objective existential threat to a referent object, that is to say a danger that – with a sufficiently high probability – threatens the survival or the essential character/properties of either a political or social order, an ecosystem, a non-human species, or individuals
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