Workshop : The political an social impact of security policies

Presentation

Since the beginning of the 1990s – but particularly in the aftermath of September 11th - the global political scenario has registered the development of two macro processes: the growth of political fear fuelled by politicians and the media, and a response to the growing anxiety in terms of security policies. Globalization, as a growing overlapping between places and populations, would be defined as a cosmic condition of insecurity, insofar as the global circulation of persons, values, commodities and symbols would entail the diffusion of demographic, financial, as well as viral and terrorist «infections». The obsession for security has induced the political powers to amplify the alarms in order to prevent them. As usual, the business of insecurity becomes an end in itself. Today, we might say that the global governance is based on insecurity. While the Leviathan – at least in theory – preserved the subjects from internal (and, above all, religious) conflicts, its contemporary global analogous produces continuous forms of conflict. To the extent that international conflicts are translated in terms of cultural or religious wars, internal political conflicts are mostly reduced into law-and-order problems. Accordingly, local communities are mobilised only for the protection of personal security, citizenship guarantees and rights are progressively reduced, the rule of law is drastically redefined, and the very notion of a public sphere seems to disappear within a process of «global de-politicization».

On the basis of these assumptions, the workshop aims to outline, analyse, and discuss the main political impacts of global security politics.

Università degli Studi di Genova

Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione

DISA

(Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche)

June 14-16, 2007

Corso Andrea Podestà 2

16128 Genova

Aula Magna

Workshop

The political an social impact of security policies

organized by the

Italian Team

(WP8)

Challenge Project

The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security

CIT1-CT-2004-506255

Sixth Framework Programme-Priority7-2002-Citizens1 New approaches to security and the role of Europe

Programm

June, 14th

h. 9.30:

Welcome by Gaetano Bignardi (Rettore dell’Università di Genova) and Pino Boero (Preside della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione)

h. 10.00

Introduction

Alessandro Dal Lago (Università di Genova)

h.10.30

First Session: The global frame of fear

Alain Joxe (EHESS, Paris)

Roberto Escobar (Università statale di Milano)

Marcello Maneri (Università di Milano - Bicocca)

Maurizio Guerri (Università statale di Milano)

Roberto Ciccarelli (Università di Firenze)

Massimiliano Guareschi (Università di Genova)

h. 13.00 Lunch break

h. 15.00 Second Session: Defining terrorism

Chairman: Alessandro Dal Lago (Università di Genova)

Danilo Zolo (Università di Firenze)

Roberto Oliveri del Castillo (Magistratura democratica)

Aldo Giannuli (Università di Bari)

Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois)

Gabriella Petti (Università di Genova)

contact: Mrs. Viviani, t. + 39 010-20953732

mailto: 50360@unige.it

June, 15th (Fri) h. 10.00 Third session: Securitarian policies

Chairman : Giorgio Galli (Un. di Milano)

Didier Bigo (Sc.Po. Paris, Kings College, London, coordinator, Challenge Project)

Peter Lock (European Association for Research on Transformation)

Inaki Rivera (Universidad de Barcelona)

Yasha Maccanico (Statewatch)

h. 13.00 Lunch break

h. 15.00 Fourth Session:Beyond Europe

Chairman : Salvatore Palidda

Michel Peraldi (Centre J. Berque, Rabat)

Emanuela Paoletti (Oxford University)

Dalila Nadi (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin)

Rutvica Andrijasevic (Oxford University)

Silja Klepp (Universität Leipzig)

Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (Università di Palermo)

June, 16th (Sa)

h. 10,00 Fifth Session: European Borders

Chairman: Augusta Molinari

Federico Oliveri (SNS-Italia)

Miriam Mir (CEPS, Bruxelles)

Pablo Ceriani (Universidad de Barcelona)

Antonello Petrillo (Università S.Orsola Benincasa, Napoli)

Federico Rahola (Un. di Genova)

Renata Pepicelli (Scuola di alta formazione Federico II, Napoli)

Paolo Cuttitta (Università di Palermo)