Ditrych, O. From discourse to dispositif: States and terrorism between Marseille and 9/11 (2013) Security Dialogue, 44 (3), pp. 223-240.
Abstract
This article is a historical study of how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s; under what conditions these statements have been articulated; and what effects the discourses made up of these statements have had on global politics. This includes the constitutive role of the present discourse on what is posited as a terrorism dispositif. The inquiry is inspired by Foucault’s historical method, and comprises the descriptive archaeological analytic focused on the order of the discourse (including basic discourses in which the terrorist subject is constituted) and the genealogical power analysis of external conditions of emergence and variation of discursive series, whose treatment benefits also from Carl Schmitt’s concept of the nomos.
Author Keywords
discourse; Foucault; genealogy; nomos; Schmitt; terrorism
DOI: 10.1177/0967010613484076
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