Dr Tugba Basaran has just published her monograph Security, Law and Borders: At the Limits of Liberties with Routledge. The book explores security practices related to migration controls in Australia, the United States and France and shows how these practices, far from being ‘exceptions’ to liberal rule, are deeply embedded within the legal order of liberal democracies. The book develops three inter-related arguments. First, it questions the discourse of exception that portrays liberal and illiberal rule as distinct ways of governing and scrutinizes liberal techniques for limiting liberties. Second, it highlights the space of government and argues for a change in perspective from territorial to legal borders, especially legal borders of policing and legal borders of rights. Third, it emphasizes the role of ordinary law for illiberal practices and argues that the legal order itself privileges policing powers and prevents access to liberties.
http://www.amazon.com/Security-Law-Borders-Liberties-Routledge/dp/0415570255
Dr Basaran is the program convenor of the MA in International Development. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She also convenes the module Security and Liberties, a good example of the School’s commitment to research-led teaching.