{"id":2337,"date":"2020-09-13T11:41:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T11:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:42:26","slug":"dr-harmonie-toros-speaking-at-bisa-event-on-2-oct-2020-towards-a-critical-security-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/13\/dr-harmonie-toros-speaking-at-bisa-event-on-2-oct-2020-towards-a-critical-security-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Harmonie Toros speaking at BISA event on 2 Oct 2020 &#8211; &#8216;Towards a critical security politics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2275\/toros-harmonie\">Dr Harmonie Toros<\/a> will be speaking at this BISA Zoom event on 2 October.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s approach to security and the \u2018war on terror\u2019 has been critiqued for privileging force, surveillance and militarism, but no substantive, alternative approach has emerged. Some NGOs and parliamentarians have challenged this security orthodoxy. Yet these attempts lack academic rigour and are often developed in response to a specific government policy. If this is a failure of politics, then it is equally a failure of the academy. The project of critical security studies has succeeded in deconstructing and critiquing the security architectures of the liberal state. Yet, it has often failed to engage \u2013 conceptually, disciplinarily, and practically \u2013 with questions of security policy. This roundtable brings together different subfields beyond \u2018security studies\u2019 narrowly defined, in order to\u00a0discuss alternative visions of security. What areas are often overlooked in academic engagement with security? How can we, as scholars, better understand the practical processes underlying security policy-making? Can we \u2013 or should we \u2013 intervene in them?<\/p>\n<p>Register for this event at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisa.ac.uk\/events\/towards-critical-security-politics\">https:\/\/www.bisa.ac.uk\/events\/towards-critical-security-politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Harmonie Toros will be speaking at this BISA Zoom event on 2 October. The UK\u2019s approach to security and the \u2018war on terror\u2019 has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/13\/dr-harmonie-toros-speaking-at-bisa-event-on-2-oct-2020-towards-a-critical-security-politics\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}