Sounds of (in)Security: rethinking IR through the acoustic.

 

Venue : Room G009, ground floor, 28 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris

 

How can attention to sounds change scholarly and policy understandings of (in)security during crises and in their aftermath? In my project, I investigate how (in)security is performed and experienced through sounds and shed light on the ways in which states and communities react to crises and traumatic events, including how the acoustic impacts people’s lives, bodies, minds, and memories. I turn to the acoustic to reflect on some of the most pressing debates currently shaking International and Critical Security Studies, especially in their quest for a more honest and severe confrontation with the political, epistemological, and methodological commitments at the heart of both disciplines.

 

Speaker :
Aurora Ganz is a "Maria Zambrano" postdoctoral research fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an affiliated researcher at IBEI. Previously, she lectured in critical security studies at the University of St Andrews. She taught at King’s College London and Sciences Po Paris. She holds a PhD from King’s College London Department of War Studies. Her research is situated in international political theory and critical social and political theory and pays special attention to the politics of security practices. 

 

Discussant:
Chiara Ruffa, Sciences Po-CERI

 

 

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Scientific coordinator: Chiara Ruffa