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Political grammars of mobility, security and subjectivity

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The ‘new mobilities paradigm’ and critical security studies share vocabularies of mobility, circulation and security. Yet, there have been only limited intersections between these approaches. This article explores the relation between mobility and security by developing a series of epistemic-political distinctions between motion, circulation and mobility. It argues that different political grammars of mobility have emerged historically and that we need to attend to the particular articulations of these grammars today, which conjugate mobility to security and subjectivity. The article starts by placing the semantics of motion and circulation, on the one hand, and of mobility, on the other, in historical context. It shows that motion, circulation and mobility are entwined with the production of particular governmental subjects and objects of (in)security. Finally, it explores how grammars of mobility shape political responses in contemporary site of intense securitisation – the UK–French borderzone at Calais.

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  • Claudia Aradau, 2016. "Political grammars of mobility, security and subjectivity," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4), pages 564-574, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:11:y:2016:i:4:p:564-574
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211824
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    1. Martina Tazzioli, 2020. "Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(1), pages 3-19, February.

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