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Process of securitisation = speech acts/discourse

By invoking security implications of an issue in political discourse we turn it into a security issue in a ‘securitising move’

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Process of securitisation = speech acts/discourse
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Audience: target of the securitisation act that needs to be persuaded
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Referent object: object being threatened and needs to be protected
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Securitising actor: entity that makes the securitizing move/statement
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De-securitisation: a move from ‘security’ to ‘politics’
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Identity & power of the securitising actor is important
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Ole Wæver & Copenhagen’s school theory of securitisation
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Security invokes 'state of exception' = closes down debate
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Security not ‘given’: issues become 'securitised'
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Separate realms of ‘politics’ & ‘security’: security = 'exceptional'
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