Security and citizenship in the global south: In/securing citizens in early republican turkey (1923-1946)

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 -