Aradau Claudia : curriculum vitae

Open University

Faculty of Social Sciences

Government & Politics

Walton Hall

Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

United Kingdom

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Current position

Lecturer in International Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University

Academic Qualifications

2006 PhD in Politics and International Studies, The Open University

2002 MPhil in Political Science, Central European University

2001 MA in International Relations and European Studies, Central European University

2000 BA in Political Science, University of Bucharest

1998-1999 Exchange Programme at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium

1998 BA in Philology, University of Bucharest

Publications

Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics out of Security (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 forthcoming).

‘Taming the Future: the dispositif of risk in the «war on terror»’ (with Rens van Munster) in Risk and the War on Terror, eds. Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede (Routledge, 2008 forthcoming).

‘Law Transformed: Guantanamo and the «Other» Exception’, Third World Quarterly vol. 28 no. 3 2007: 489-501.

‘Governing Terrorism through Risk: taking precautions, (un)knowing the future’, European Journal of International Relations, vol 13 no 1 2007: 89-115 (with Rens van Munster).

‘Critical Approaches to Security in Europe: A Networked Manifesto’, Security Dialogue vol 27 no 4: 443-487 (with the case collective).

‘Trafficking in Women: Security and Democratic Subjects’, Re-public. Re-imagining democracy’ Special Issue on ‘Migration Unbound’, http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=64.

‘Limits of security, limits of politics? A response’, Journal of International Relations and Development 9(1) 2006: 81-90 (to replies by Rita Taureck, Andreas Behnke, and Hayward Alker).

‘Only aporias to offer? Etienne Balibar’s politics and the ambiguity of war’, New Formations 58 2006: 39-46.

Good Practices in Response to Human Trafficking: cooperation between civil society and law enforcement in Europe (Copenhagen: Danish Red Cross, 2005), first edition, 2000 copies. Also available online from http://www1.drk.dk/sw39202.asp.

‘Governing Terrorism and the (Non-)politics of Risk’ (with Rens van Munster), Working Paper, Political Science Publications, University of Southern Denmark, No. 11/2005, http://www.sam.sdu.dk/politics/publikationer/05Rens11.pdf .

‘The Perverse politics of four-letter words: risk and pity in the securitization of human trafficking’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 2004, vol. 33 no. 2: 251-277.

‘Security and the democratic scene: desecuritization and emancipation’, Journal of International Relations and Development 2004 vol. 7: 388-413.

‘Trafficking in women: human risks or human rights?’, Canadian Women Journal/Les Cahiers de la Femme 2003, vol. 22 no. 3/4: 55 -59. Desecuritise and Despair? The Copenhagen School Revisited, CEU Working Paper (Budapest: Central European University, 2003).

Previous positions

November 2004-August 2007 Research Associate in the Centre of International Relations, Department of War Studies, King’s College London

October 2005-May 2006 Part-time lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies

July 2005-September 2005 Consultant for the Danish Red Cross on a project on ‘Good practices in response to human trafficking in Europe’

March 2003-July 2003 Consultant for the European Union EUROGOV project, paper on ‘Governance and Migration’

Conferences and workshops

4-5 May 2007, Aberysthwyth-Lancaster Colloquium, ‘Forget equality? Security and liberty in the «war on terror»’, University of Lancaster.

18-20 December 2006, BISA Annual Conference, Cork, ‘Law transformed: Guantanamo and the «other» exception’.

23-24 November 2006, The Open University, London Regional Centre, ‘Insuring terrorism, assuring subjects, ensuring politics’, COST Workshop on ‘Security, Technologies of Risk and the Political’.

11-12 September 2006, COST/Challenge International Conference, 9/11 Five Years After: Values, Risk and Identity in the War on Terror, ‘Underwriting security: insurance, risk and terrorism’, http://www.prio.no/files/file47970_9_11_programme_external_030906.pdf.

29-30 June 2006, MIDAS-CCIG workshop Freedom, Fear, Security: revisiting insecurity after 9/11 and 7/7, ‘Security as Ambiguous Universality?’, The Open University, http://www.midas.bham.ac.uk/ukconf.htm.

22-25 March 2006, 47th ISA Annual Convention, San Diego, ‘Law transformed: Guantanamo between exception and nomos’ and ‘Governing terrorism through risk: taking precautions, (un)knowing the future’ (with Rens van Munster, also presented for the ISA workshop on ‘Risk management and the War on Terror’, 21 March 2006).

19-21 December 2005, BISA Annual Conference, University of St. Andrews, ‘Forget Political Economy? The Dilemma of Liberty and Security’.

9-10 June 2005, COST Action The Evolving Social Construction of Threats, University of Vilnius, ’Governing terrorism and the politics of risk’, with Rens van Munster, University of Southern Denmark.

16-18 June 2005, Critical Approaches to Security in Europe, Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris, ’Security and limits of politics’.

11 February 2005, ELISE Workshop, King’s College London, ‘Governing Populations and the Ungovernable People: The Liberal State and the War on Terror’.

20-22 December 2004, BISA Annual Conference, University of Warwick, ‘Security and the democratic scene: desecuritisation and emancipation’.

17-19 July 2004, Security Bytes, University of Lancaster, ‘The Perverse Politics of Four- Letter Words: Risk and Pity in the Securitisation of Human Trafficking’.

17-20 March 2004, Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Québec, Canada, ‘(In)Different politics: trafficking in women and resistance as event’.

22 November 2003, Sixth Annual Central and Northern England Postgraduate Conference (CANE), European Research Institute, University of Birmingham ‘Risk Technologies and Diseased Others: What Politics for «THB» Victims?’.

15-17 December 2003, British International Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, ‘(In)Different politics: trafficking in women and resistance as event’.

8-10 November 2002, University of California, Berkeley, ‘Human Trafficking: Risky Women and the Government of Dangerous Subjectivities’.

20-22 June 2002 3rd Annual CEEISA/NISA /RISA Convention, Moscow ‘Infamous Women: human trafficking and the dynamics of securitisation/desecuritisation’.

Professional activities and affiliations

Co-editor of the Security Dialogue special issue on ‘Security, Technologies of Risk and the Political’, 2008 vol. 39 no. 2 (with Rens van Munster and Luis Lobo-Guerrero).

Member of the Managing Editorial Board of International Political Sociology (new journal of the International Studies Association)

Member of the case collective, http://www.casecollective.org

Member of the European Concerted Research Action COST Action XXX, ‘The Evolving Social Construction of Threats’, http://www.cost-a24.info.

Peer reviews for European Journal of International Relations, Contemporary Political Theory, Slovo, Security Dialogue, and International Migration

Convenor of CRIPT (Critical Research in International Political Theory), a BISA working group, 2003-2004

Member of the British International Studies Association (BISA)

Member of Political Studies Association

Awards/Scholarships

2002-2005 Research Grant for doctoral studies, The Open University

2002-2003/2001-2002 Fellowship for MA and MPhil studies, Open Society Institute

2002-2003 Global Supplementary Grant, Open Society Institute

1998-1999 Socrates scholarship, Socrates National Agency in Romania

Languages

Romanian, English, French, Italian, German (intermediate)

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Aradau Claudia : curriculum vitae