Aradau Claudia

This author's articles

• Forum on « desecuritisation and emancipation »

  27 June 2006
  The forum raises questions about the relation between security and politics, the meaning of securitisation/desecuritisation and their political implications. The role of security analysis and analytical tools is considered in tension with political approaches based in social struggles. Schmitt’s influence on our understandings of security and the relation to political communities is also explored.

• Conference: Law, Politics and the Challenge of Exceptionalism post-9/11

  2 May 2006
  The war in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, suspensions of human rights have all reactivated a discourse about the state of exception.

• Forget Capitalism? Security as Liberty

  6 September 2005
  Claudia Aradau approached the dilemma between security and liberty, pointing out that the security argument prevails over the liberty one, even when freedom itself is being invoked. In order to unpack the logic that makes liberty subordinated to security, she has looked at how liberty is conceptualized in the work of Thomas Hobbes. The trade-off between security and liberty has its roots in Hobbes, therefore it is important to understand how this trade-off functions.

• The New State of Exception: The Political and Social Implications of Globalized Insecurities - General bibliography

  19 April 2005
  The document contains comments on five main books for the research and a general bibliography.

• Aradau Claudia : curriculum vitae

  19 April 2005
  Claudia Aradau is Lecturer in International Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University. Her research interests concern the effects of securitization, emancipatory politics, the role of equality as a principle of politics against the trade-off of liberty and security.

• The Other Hobbesian State

  19 April 2005
  The paper revisits the relation of liberty and security through a re-reading of Hobbes and Michel Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics. It shows how the sovereign state, in its attempt to prevent seditions and revolts, insidiously transforms into a state of prosperity, which creates other forms of liberty. Against the contractual liberty/security, the creation of these new liberties becomes itself a mode of security.

• WP1: The New State of Exception: The Political and Social Implications of Globalized Insecurities

  19 April 2005
  This workpackage draws on political and cultural theory, international relations, and criminology to develop an innovative theorisation of the nexus between security and liberty and its application to the European context. It specifically responds to characterisations of contemporary security practices in terms of «the state of exception», the spatio-temporal re-articulation of the exception in political practice, and the political and social implications of this re-articulation.