Grigoreva K.S. Securitization: Discourses, Practices and Social Magic. Issues of National and Federative Relations. 2022. Vol.12. No. 11(92). Pp. 4189-4195.

Abstract

Discussion about what is primary in the process of securitization—discourses or practices—has taken place for over 20 years. The established traditions of securitization research lead to a separate analysis of discourses and practices, even in those works where attempts are made to combine the two competing approaches. At that, “discourses” refers to a very wide variety of public political statements, while “practices” mainly refers to the strategies of security professionals. For a deeper understanding of securitization processes, it is necessary to narrow the focus of the research to securitizing performatives of the first-order and the securitizing practices related to them. This approach will allow the focus to be placed on those political statements that are really capable of changing social reality, the overcoming of the artificially established border in the study of discourses and practices, the analysis of institutional mechanisms of securitization.