Safe area theory and practice: security for civilians or creating new states of exception during humanitarian crises?

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dc.contributor.authorTuran, Gözde
dc.contributor.departmentOthertr_TR
dc.contributor.facultyOthertr_TR
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-28T11:44:10Z
dc.date.available2022-01-28T11:44:10Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractDrawing on the notion of “safe area” not only as a geographical but also a social construct, this article argues that the efforts of aiding civilians at risk through confining them to bordered areas increase the insecurities experienced both inside and outside of these areas by multiple actors. Exemplifying four cases – Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Syria – it revokes Agamben’s concept of homo sacer to display how the civilians are reduced to bare lives who are excluded from the political sphere and whose killing has been excluded from political and judicial scrutiny. A comparative study on the four situations indicates widening and deepening insecurities for the civilian populations who lose their manoeuvre capacity to respond to security threats and who become dependent particularly on external aid to survive. While revisiting the main causes of failure to protect civilians at risk during armed conflicts, the article suggests that safe areas should be treated as spatial domains with multiple actors holding competing concerns and interests, and encourages reconsideration of the implications of constructing confined spaces during humanitarian crises without full political and military commitment and liability.tr_TR
dc.description.indexTrdizintr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage60tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn/e-issn2667-5382
dc.identifier.startpage37tr_TR
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/77396
dc.identifier.volume52tr_TR
dc.language.isoentr_TR
dc.publisherAnkara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Fakültesitr_TR
dc.relation.journalThe Turkish Yearbook of International Relationstr_TR
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Başka Kurum Yazarıtr_TR
dc.subjectAgambentr_TR
dc.subjectHomo sacertr_TR
dc.subjectSafe areatr_TR
dc.titleSafe area theory and practice: security for civilians or creating new states of exception during humanitarian crises?tr_TR
dc.typeArticletr_TR

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