All Outputs (6)

Securing the diaspora: Policing global order (2016)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. (2016). Securing the diaspora: Policing global order. In J. Hönke, & M.-M. Muller (Eds.), The Global Making of Police: Postcolonial Perspectives (114-131). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315680040

This chapter explores the transnational security governance of diasporas as a window onto the global making of policing. Using the Tamil diaspora in Britain as case study, it argues that policing – understood as governance directed to the production... Read More about Securing the diaspora: Policing global order.

Postcolonialism (2016)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. (2016). Postcolonialism. In A. Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies (122-138). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198708315.003.0009

In this chapter, we introduce postcolonialism as a recent and increasingly influential set of positions and perspectives within the wider discipline of International Relations, and sketch its implications for security studies. We begin with postcolon... Read More about Postcolonialism.

Policing and Global Governance (2005)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Weldes, J. (2005). Policing and Global Governance. In M. N. Barnett, & R. Duvall (Eds.), Power in Global Governance (59-79). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491207.003

Representing the International: Sovereignty after Modernity? (2004)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Weldes, J. (2004). Representing the International: Sovereignty after Modernity?. In P. Passavant, & J. Dean (Eds.), The Empire's New Clothes: reading Hardt and Negri (121-142). Routledge

A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times: globalization and historical materialism (2002)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Dean, K. (2002). A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times: globalization and historical materialism. In M. Rupert, & H. Smith (Eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalisation: Essays on Continuity and Change (90-109). Routledge

Adding an Asian Strand: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Culture in New Zealand, 1984-97 (1999)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M. (1999). Adding an Asian Strand: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Culture in New Zealand, 1984-97. In J. Weldes (Ed.), Cultures of Insecurity: States Communities and the Production of Danger (233-260). Univ of Minnesota Press