Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 |
| Time: | 3:00 pm — 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, Second floor conference rooms |
| Audience: | Faculty |
| Cost: | Free |
Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice Winter Colloquium
Speaker: David Moffette – Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Department of Criminology
Drawing from research with Shaira Vadasaria, Professor Moffette will bring a critical race analysis to existing literature on securitization to address a lacuna in securitization theory. The presentation will offer a conceptual framework to account for the entanglements between the securitization of immigration and racial violence. Reflecting on the limits of the concept of securitization to account for the normality of racial violence, the presentation will address the framework of racial governmentality and suggest that securitization enables expressions of racial desires already constitutive of colonial modernity. An empirical exploration of securitization of immigration in Canada will be presented as a case study.