Analyzing the Security Field: Mapping Privatization and Internationalization

Faculty
Professor Didier Bigo (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris/Kings College, London) Research Associate Professor Mikael Rask Madsen (Centre for Studies in Legal Culture, Copenhagen University), Professor Anna Leander (Dep. of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School)

Course Coordinator
Professor Anna Leander, Dep. of Intercultural Communication and Management

Prerequisite
Applicants are expected to be enrolled in a PhD program. Scholars not enrolled in PhD programs, but with a special interest in the topic, are welcome to send in an application stating special interest and will be approved if space allows.
Prerequisite/progression of the course

The course is at the PhD level and presupposes a sound back ground in social theory and method. A general understanding of Bourdieu inspired field theory will be an advantage. Scholars with interests in field theory, the privatization and/or internationalization of security are encouraged to apply.

Aim of the course

The course focuses on the value added and practical use of field theory for research in the area of security. There is a rapidly growing interest in field theory in security studies, and this course is intent on the different ways in which it is used. In particular, the analytical advantage of field theory is demonstrated when analyzing privatization and internationalization of security as key transformations in the security area.

At the end of the course participants should have:

a grounded understanding of the variety of the research done with field theory within the security area,
a reflected view on the advantages and limits of this kind of analysis,
the capacity to design a field analysis,
knowledge about the methodological challenges of using field theory within the security area, and
related their own research to field analysis.

To these ends, the course departs from an introduction to field theory in general and a mapping of EU internal security agencies and market actors in the security field. Then, the course will use this to discuss field theory and mapping techniques generally. During the last part of the course, Field Theory and Mapping will be related to the Ph.D projects of the participants.

Course content, structure and teaching

	Thursday, April 23	Friday, April 24
8.30-13.00	Field Analysis in Practise	Project workshop: Discussion of selected projects and the relvance/utility/limits of fields analysis in relation to these (facilitators DB/MRM/ALE)
8.30-10.00	Mapping the Internationalization and Privatization of Security: European Security Institutions Networks (DB)	Mapping personal relations (MRM)
10.00-11.30	Mapping the Internationalization and Privatization of Security: European Security Institutions Networks (DB)	Mapping Institutional relations (DB)
11.30-13.00	Mapping the Internationalization and Privatization of Security: European Private Security Companies (ALE) Considering mapping methods: choices and limits particularly compared to alternative approaches to security.	Mapping company relations (ALE)
13.00-14.00	Lunch	Lunch
14:00-18.30	Theoretical foundations of field analysis (Discussion based on short statements by DB/MRM/AKE)	Project workshop: Discussion of selected projects and the relevance / utility /limits of field analysis in relation to these (facilitators DB/MRM/ALE)
14.00-15.30	Drawing Field Boundaries	Project Workshop 1
15.30-17.00	Identifying Capital	Project Workshop 2
17.00-18.30	Establishing positions	Project Workshop 3
19.00		Course dinner

Course literature

(These will be circulated to the participants together with a list of background readings on field theory and privatization/internationalization of security):

Bigo, Didier. (2008) Globalized (In)security: The Field and the Ban-opticon. In Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes,
edited by Didier Bigo and Anastassia Tsoukala. New York and London: Routledge.

Bigo, Didier,Laurent Bonelli,Dario Chi, and Christian Olsson. (2007) Mapping of the Field of the EU Internal Security Agencies. Paris: L'Harmattan.

Leander, Anna. (2005) The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies. Millennium 33:803-26.(

______ 2008) Habitus and Field. Blackwell: International Studies Compendium Project.

Madsen, Mikael Rask. (2006) Transnational Fields: Elements of a Reflexive Sociology of the Internationalisation of Law. Retfærd:34-41

______ .(2007) From Cold War Instrument to Supreme European Court : The European Court of Human Rights at the Crossroads of International and National Law and Politics. Law and Social Inquiry 32:137-59.

Enrolment

Applicants should register on http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1985 no later than March 15 2009. After the deadline, the applicants will be informed whether they are accepted for the course.

Participants are expected to send written papers (15-20 normal pages) that relate their Ph.d projects to the course theme. The papers should be send to sek@polforsk.dk no later than April 5. Then, the papers will be circulated to all course participants.

Sidst opdateret af Majbritt Vendelbo 13.03.2009