ABSTRACT
This chapter revises the securitization framework of the Copenhagen School from within in order to excavate the contours of a consequent poststructuralist theory of securitization. However, this processual understanding is not mirrored in the ontological concepts that make up the analytical framework laid out by the Copenhagen School, the securitizing actor, the securitizing move and the perlocutionary effect. To develop a theoretical framework that is in line with the general philosophical ontology of the Copenhagen School chapter hence suggest understanding securitization as an ongoing discursive struggle. In sum, Laclau and Mouffe's hegemony theory provides a missing link between those identifying securitization processes with the micro-practices of security actors, by following Foucault's microphysics of productive power, and those studying it as a core political macro-discourse, able to create political antagonisms and suspend the normal political process.
