We are launching the second season of Insecure: A Security Podcast with this mini episode in which we discuss the future of our research, both as Early Career Researchers and Research Fellows at the University of Leeds.

This fascinating discussion explores our ongoing research and plans for the future.

Marine discusses her recent research including a forthcoming book chapter in an edited volume for Manchester University Press in which she analyses the colonial legacies of French counterterrorism strategy in securitising the terrorist bodies in response to the threat of terrorism. Additionally we discuss a Special Issue which she has contributed to and which is soon to be published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, where she writes about the analysis undertaken on the French political discourse and the framing of the terrorist threat to uncover the securitisation framework in November 2015. Based on critical discourse analysis, it underpins engaging with the debate around the constructed notion of ‘temporality’. The article brings a critique of the notion of ruptural temporality and the notion of existential threat by demonstrating the coloniality of such powers through a continuity rather than rupture. Finally, Marine discusses her contribution to Securitization Theory regarding the nexus of securitization-desecuritization and argues for the impossibility of desecuritising the threat of terrorism in the French context when resting upon colonial continuities. 

To find out more on Marine’s research, follow her https://twitter.com/GueguinMarine on Twitter or visit her webpage: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/pgr/875/marine-gueguin- 

Harry discusses a paper which he recently presented at the ISA Annual Convention 2024 in which he compared representations of the ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ in the English language propaganda produced by the Islamic State and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. In so doing this paper explores how two groups with shared origins have developed in radically different ways. Additionally this research informs this episode’s discussion of ‘narratives’ as a distinct form of discourse. 

To find out more on Harry’s research, follow him https://twitter.com/HarrySwinhoe on Twitter or visit his webpage: https://css.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/harrison-swinhoe/ 

To find out about the cutting edge research taking place within the CGSC

Please visit the Centre for Global Security Challenges’ webpage

What’s next?

Stay tuned, our next episode will be coming out next week and we will be looking at the Future of Security Studies.

Get in touch with us at insecurepodcast@outlook.com or using our twitter @InsecurePod to find out more or to submit questions for future episodes.

ThisIt was Harry and Marine for Insecure: A Security Podcast.

Credits to CGSC https://css.leeds.ac.uk, particularly to Prof. Jack Holland and Dr. Laura Considine for funding this episode.

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