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      How to do things with silence: Rethinking the centrality of speech to the securitization framework

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      Security Dialogue
      SAGE Publications
      International relations theory, power, securitization, security, silence

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          This contribution offers the first steps in a novel conceptualization of how international relations and security studies can provide an analytics of silence. Starting with an analysis of a paradigmatic use of silence in the field, Lene Hansen’s ‘Little Mermaid’, the contribution shows the limitations and issues with an analytics that concentrates on the meaning behind silences. Silence as meaning is problematic because analytically what is offered solely is the overinvestment of the analyst’s ‘horizon of expectation’ upon a sign that is not generally meant to be one. Mobilizing a feminist reading of pornography as speech act, the contribution shows how silence may also be performative, in the sense that it does something to a specific logocentric order at the heart of our analysis of the international or security. The contribution finally offers a possible way of thinking about silence as doing rather than meaning and shows how this can be a possible analytical path to invert our analytics of the international and security from the perspective of the state/the powerful to that of the subaltern.

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                Journal
                Secur Dialogue
                Secur Dialogue
                SDI
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                Security Dialogue
                SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                0967-0106
                1460-3640
                23 August 2018
                December 2018
                : 49
                : 6
                : 476-492
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                [1-0967010618789755]Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands
                Author notes
                [*]Xavier Guillaume, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Oude Kijk in’t Jatstraat 26, Groningen, 9712 EK, the Netherlands. Email: x.guillaume@ 123456rug.nl
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                10.1177_0967010618789755
                10.1177/0967010618789755
                6240928
                74e9b7ff-d680-40c4-affb-ebeaebf8673f
                © The Author(s) 2018

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