Sarikakis Katharine

This author's articles

• ‘Making’ Security: Citizenship, Public Sphere and the Condition of Symbolic Annihilation

  11 December 2006
  This paper explores the relationship between new forms of European governance, as expressed through security-focused policies, and the European citizen. It seeks to unravel the contextual framework within which the notion of civil liberties, citizens’ participation in the democratisation of supranational and international politics, and the supranational governance are re-defined. The paper argues that the processes of ‘securitisation’ have an impact for the democratic functioning of citizenship by a) restricting the spaces and processes of action and communication among citizens b) restricting citizens’ access to policymaking, in particular in highly sensitive areas, for their effect on civil liberties; and c) prioritising the executive branches of the European polity at the expense of representative politics and the judiciary. This combination of policy trends contributes to the ‘symbolic annihilation’ of EU citizens.

• Sarikakis Katharine : curriculum vitae

  11 November 2006
  Katharine Sarikakis PhD is Senior Lecturer in Communications Policy and Director of the Centre for International Communications Research (CICR) at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds.