William Walters
Professor
- BSc (London) MA (CUNY) PhD (York)
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I am a Professor at 杏吧原创 University, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Sociology/Anthropology.
s 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. Broadly speaking, the method I have followed in my work is to study the objectification of human experience in specific domains 鈥 unemployment, , and, most recently, . I ask what politics means in these domains, what forms it is capable of taking, and what lessons we can extrapolate from these encounters.
I am currently working on three projects: (1) a book entitled (provisionally!) Rethinking Secrecy (forthcoming with Routledge); (2) a funded (2017-22) collaborative study of what I call which focuses on the role of civil aviation in the forced removals of foreigners and illegalized people in and from Europe; (3) a co-edited book (with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani) called Viapolitics (forthcoming with Duke University Press). I am also a co-editor (with Martin Geiger, 杏吧原创, and Parvati Raghuram, Open University) of the book series .
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Selected Publications
Walters, W. 2012. Governmentality: Critical Encounters, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, p.171. [Japanese translation with new : Tokyo: Getsuyosha, 2016]
Dijstelbloem, H. and Walters, W. 2019. 鈥楢tmospheric Border Politics: The Morphology of Border and Solidarity Practices in Europe鈥, Geopolitics. DOI: , pp..
Walters, W. 2019. 鈥. A Critical Reading of Return Flight Monitoring Reports.鈥 M. Hoesch and L. Laube (eds) Proceedings of the 2018 ZiF Workshop 鈥淪tudying Migration Policies at the Interface between Empirical Research and Normative Analysis鈥, ULB Mu虉nster (miami.uni-muenster.de), 161鈥185.
Walters, W. 2018. 鈥樷.&苍产蝉辫;Radical Philosophy Series 2 Volume 3 (December): 33-37.
Walters, W. 2018. 鈥樷, Guest Blog, Border Criminologies.
Moffette, D. and Walters, W. 2018. 鈥楩lickering Presence: Theorizing Race and Racism in the Governmentality of Borders and Migration鈥, Studies in Social Justice. 12(1): .
Walters, W. and A. Luscombe. 2017. 鈥槼兮,&苍产蝉辫;International Political Sociology 11(1): 5-20.