TY - JOUR
T1 - Security and citizenship in the global south
T2 - In/securing citizens in early republican turkey (1923-1946)
AU - Bilgin, Pinar
AU - Ince, Basak
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - The relationship between security and citizenship is more complex than media portrayals based on binary oppositions seem to suggest (included/excluded, security/insecurity), or mainstream approaches to International Relations (IR) and security seem to acknowledge. This is particularly the case in the post-imperial and/or postcolonial contexts of global South where the transition of people from subjecthood to citizenship is better understood as a process of in/securing. For, people were secured domestically as they became citizens with access to a regime of rights and duties. People were also secured internationally as citizens of newly independent ‘nation-states’ who were protected against interventions and/or ‘indirect rule’ by the (European) International Society, whose practices were often justified on grounds of the former’s ‘failings’ in meeting the so-called ‘standards of civilization’. Yet, people were also rendered insecure as they sought to approximate and/or resist the citizen imaginaries of the newly established ‘nation-states’. The article illustrates this argument by looking at the case of Turkey in the early Republican era (1923-1946).
AB - The relationship between security and citizenship is more complex than media portrayals based on binary oppositions seem to suggest (included/excluded, security/insecurity), or mainstream approaches to International Relations (IR) and security seem to acknowledge. This is particularly the case in the post-imperial and/or postcolonial contexts of global South where the transition of people from subjecthood to citizenship is better understood as a process of in/securing. For, people were secured domestically as they became citizens with access to a regime of rights and duties. People were also secured internationally as citizens of newly independent ‘nation-states’ who were protected against interventions and/or ‘indirect rule’ by the (European) International Society, whose practices were often justified on grounds of the former’s ‘failings’ in meeting the so-called ‘standards of civilization’. Yet, people were also rendered insecure as they sought to approximate and/or resist the citizen imaginaries of the newly established ‘nation-states’. The article illustrates this argument by looking at the case of Turkey in the early Republican era (1923-1946).
KW - Citizenship
KW - Global South
KW - International Society
KW - Security
KW - Standards of civilization
KW - Turkey
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84988220784&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0047117814562219
DO - 10.1177/0047117814562219
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84988220784
SN - 0047-1178
VL - 29
SP - 500
EP - 520
JO - International Relations
JF - International Relations
IS - 4
ER -