William Walters
Office Hours
Fall office hours will be Monday’s 2:30-4:30.
Supervisory Areas
Political sociology; borders and migration; secrecy and security; genealogies of politics and government.
杏吧原创
I am a Professor of political sociology, cross-appointed in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology and FPA Research Excellence Chair (2019-22) at 杏吧原创. 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. My research fields have been unemployment, the supranational governance of Europe, , and, most recently, . What links all of these areas is my interest in denaturalizing experiences and categories, and interrogating their relationship to different forms of politics.
I am currently working on three projects: (1) 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; (2) with Martina Tazzioli I am co-editing A Handbook on Governmentality (Edward Elgar publishers) (3) a book project tentatively titled Secrecy: A Critical Introduction.
Graduate Supervision
At 杏吧原创 I have supervised many students at MA, doctoral and postdoctoral levels, and visiting researchers. Many are now in tenured or tenure-track positions in Canada, the United States, and Europe. If you think your research overlaps with mine and you are looking for supervision, do get in touch!
Recent Publications
Books
Walters, W. 2021. (Routledge 2021). You can listen to podcast discussions of the book and .
Walters, W., Heller, C. and Pezzani, L. (eds) (Duke University Press, 2021).
Walters, W. 2012. Governmentality: Critical Encounters, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, p.171. [Japanese translation with new : Tokyo: Getsuyosha, 2016].
Recent Articles, Chapters, and Posts (Selected)
Walters, W. 2021. 鈥楾owards an Aerial Geography of Forced Migration鈥 in G. Grappi (ed.) Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice: Europe and the Global Dimension, New York: Routledge, 122-139.
Walters, W. 2021. 鈥榃hat is a Migration Route?鈥 in E. Carmel, K. Lenner and R. Paul (eds) Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press, 242-253.
Walters, W. 2020. 鈥樷. Security Dialogue. 51(1): 60-76.
Walters, W. 2020. 鈥樷, PARSE Journal, Issue 10.
Walters, W. 2020. 鈥楾echnologies of Deportation鈥, in P. Adey et al (eds) Handbook of Displacement, New York: Palgrave, 237-254.
Walters, W. and Luscombe, A. 2020. 鈥楶ostsecrecy and Place: Researching Secrecy Amidst the Ruins of an Atomic Weapons Facility鈥, in M. De Goede, P. Pallister-Wilkins and E. Bosme (eds), Secrecy and Methods in Security Research, New York: Routledge, 63-78.
Dijstelbloem, H. and Walters, W. 2019. 鈥樷, Geopolitics. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2019.1577826, pp.1-24 .
Tazzioli, M. and Walters, W. 2019. 鈥樷 , Global Discourse 9(1): 175-190. DOI: 10.1332/204378918X15453934506030.
Walters, W. 2019. 鈥.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. Radical Philosophy Series 2 Volume 3 (December): 33-37.
Walters, W. 2018. 鈥樷, Guest Blog, Border Criminologies.
Moffette, D. and Walters, W. 2018. 鈥樷, Studies in Social Justice. 12(1): 92-110.
De Genova, N., Lecadet, C., and Walters, W. 2018. 鈥樷, Vacarme No. 83: 15-21.
Walters, W. 2018. 鈥楢viation as Deportation Infrastructure: Airports, Planes, and Expulsion鈥, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 44(16): 2796-2817.
Walters, W. and A. Luscombe. 2017. 鈥樷, International Political Sociology 11(1): 5-20.
Walters, W. 2017. 鈥樷, in P. Bonditti, D. Bigo and F. Gros (eds) Foucault and the Modern International, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 57-76.
Walters, W. 2017. 鈥楲ive Governance, Borders, and the Time-Space of the Situation: EUROSUR and the Genealogy of Bordering in Europe鈥, Comparative European Politics 15(5): 794-617.
Walters, W. and B. L眉thi. 2016. 鈥樷, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 29(4): 359-366. [75%]
Tazzioli, M. and W. Walters. 2016. 鈥楾he Sight of Migration: Governmentality, Visibility, and Europe鈥檚 Contested Borders鈥, Global Society 30(3): 445-464.
Salter, M. and W. Walters. 2016. 鈥樷, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 44(3): 524-46.
Ana茂s, S. and W. Walters. 2016. ‘Hazardous Material Photography: An Interview with ‘, Cultural Geographies 23(1): 159-168.
Walters, W. 2015. ‘‘, Movements: Journal der Kritischen Migrations- und Grenzeregimeforschung 1(1).
Walters, W. 2014. 鈥, Dingpolitik, and Beyond: Furthering the Debate on Materiality and Security鈥, Security Dialogue 45(2): 101-118.