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Walters, William

Foucault studies; borders and migration; political sociology; secrecy and security.

• BSc (London) MA (CUNY) PhD (York)
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I am a Professor of Politics in the Department of Political Science and Department of Sociology & Anthropology, and FPA Research Excellence Chair (2019-22) at �Ӱ�ԭ��. As an undergraduate I trained in chemistry at Imperial College, London, before doing graduate studies in politics at City University of New York and York University, Toronto. I have published widely in the areas of political sociology, political geography, citizenship studies, security and insecurity, and Foucault studies. If I had to describe my approach it would be empirical or grounded political theory. This is to say that I am interested in questions of theory which I approach by working through specific cases, contexts and domains. The domains I have looked at include the history of unemployment, and borders, and most recently, and the .

Besides my ongoing interest in secrecy I am currently working on three projects: (1) a funded (2017-22) collaborative study of which focuses on the role of civil aviation in the forced removals of illegalized or criminalized people in and from Europe; (2) a co-edited book (with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani) called (forthcoming with Duke University Press); (3) The Handbook on Governmentality for Edward Elgar publishing, which I am co-editing with Martina Tazzioli and which should appear in 2022.

If you think our interests might overlap and you are looking for supervision, do get in touch!

Selected Publications

Walters, W. 2021. , New York: Routledge.
Listen to a with William Walters and Alison Mountz, Balsillie School.

Walters, W. 2020. ‘’. Security Dialogue. 51(1): 60-76.

Walters, W. 2020. ‘’, PARSE Journal, Issue 10.

Dijstelbloem, H. and Walters, W. 2019. ‘’, Geopolitics. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2019.1577826, pp.1-24.

Walters, W. 2019. ‘.’ M. Hoesch and L. Laube (eds) Proceedings of the 2018 ZiF Workshop “Studying Migration Policies at the Interface between Empirical Research and Normative Analysis”, ULB Münster (miami.uni-muenster.de), 161–185. DOI: 10.17879/95189425134

Walters, W. 2018. ‘’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 44(16): 2796-2817. [Published in Italian as: ‘Aeri, aeroporti ed espulsioni: Le infrastrutture aeree come strumento di deportazione’, in L. Navone (ed.) Confini, Mobilità e Migrazioni: Una cartografia dello spazio Europeo, (Milan: Agenzia X, 2020), 49-80 (trans. by L. Navone).]

Walters, W. and A. Luscombe. 2017. ‘’, International Political Sociology 11(1): 5-20.