Too often, talk about security seems to belong to politicians and psychologists; to discussions about terrorism and defence, individual anxiety and insecurity. But how do sociologists think about it? And why care?
Daria Krivonos – who works on migration, race and class in Central and Eastern Europe – tells Alexis and Rosie why security matters. What’s the impact of calling migration a “security threat”? How does the security of the privileged rely on the insecurity of the precarious? And, as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, what would it mean to truly #StandwithUkraine – from ensuring better job security for its workers abroad, to cancelling its debt?
Plus: pop culture pointers; from Kae Tempest’s “People’s Faces” to the movie “The Mauritanian” – and Alexis’ teenage passion for Rage Against the Machine.
Guest: Daria Krivonos
Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong
Executive Producer: Alice Bloch
Sound Engineer: David Crackles
Music: Joe Gardner
Artwork: Erin Aniker
Find more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.
Episode Resources
Daria, Rosie and Alexis recommended
Kae Tempest’s song “People’s Faces”
Rage Against the Machine’s song “Without a Face”
Kevin Macdonald’s movie “The Mauritanian”
From The Sociological Review
“Brexit On ‘Plague Island’: Fortifying The UK’s Borders In Times Of Crisis” – Michaela Benson and Nando Sigona
“Organised State Abandonment: The meaning of Grenfell” – Brenna Bhandar
“Food Insecurity: Upsetting ‘Apple Carts’ in Abstract and Tangible Markets” – Susan Marie Martin
By Daria Krivonos
“The making of gendered ‘migrant workers’ in youth activation: The case of young Russian-speakers in Finland”
“Ukrainian farm workers and Finland’s regular army of labour”
“Who stands with Ukraine in the long term?”
“Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw” (forthcoming)
Further readings
“The Death of Asylum” – Alison Mountz
“What was the so-called ‘European Refugee Crisis’?” – Danish Refugee Council
World Food Programme Yemen and Ethiopia statistics
“In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All” – UN Secretary-General
“Ukrainian Workers Flee ‘Modern Slavery’ Conditions on UK Farms” – Diane Taylor
“Bordering” – Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy
Anthony Giddens’ sociological work; including “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”
S3 E10 Migration and the making of Global Britain
S3 E9 (Not so) safe routes
S3 E8 Fortress Britain?
BtH2 E2 Beyond the headlines … Care Activism with Ethel Tungohan
S3 E7 Families at the borders
BtH2 E1 Beyond the headlines … at Manchester Museum with Senna Yousef and Caitlin Nunn
S3 E6 Migrant Rights 2.0
S3 E5 Migration, diaspora, diplomacy
S3 E4 A New Plan for Migration?
S3 E3 Bye, Bye Britain
BONUS Interview with Elspeth Guild
S3 E2 Free Movement, limited
S3 E1 Of Kings, Songs and Migrants
S2 BONUS Behind the Scenes
S2 E10 In dialogue
S2 E9 East-West inequalities and the remaking of unequal Europeans
S2 E8 Who is a migrant?
BtH1 S8 Beyond the headlines … with İdil Akıncı-Pérez
S2 E7 European Identities from the Aliens Act 1905 to Brexit
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