Beyond the state: Reimagining protection as constellations of care

Bendfeldt, Luise and Basham, Victoria M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-5119 2024. Beyond the state: Reimagining protection as constellations of care. Critical Studies on Security 10.1080/21624887.2024.2413751

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Abstract

Protection is traditionally conceptualised in relation to the state. Not only does the state provide protection externally, i.e. vis-à-vis other states in an assumed anarchical system, but also internally through various instruments of care. Such protection however relies on the social contract and is thus inherently transactional. Protection, and associated care, then becomes something earned, something one is entitled to by virtue of certain, past, actions and behaviours, rather than something that is compassionately provided. How can we rethink protection away from the state? How to transform glimmers of hope of alternatives to the transactional model into sustained and sustainable change and care? We want to think through and offer alternative ways of care/ing: those more (inter-)personal, more community-focused, centred around intergenerational promises and responsibilities to ensure both a liveable present and future, ultimately disrupting imposed (state) boundaries that rely on and foster difference.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JZ International relations
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	2162-4887
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	4 October 2024
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2024 09:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172602

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