People

Dr Silvia Pasquetti

I am interested inthe distribution of varied forms of urban militarism, covert surveillance, and securitized humanitarianism over ‘suspect populations’. Drawing on ethnography and historical-legal analysis, I examine how targeted people experience the close relationships that they unwillingly establish with powerful and typically hostile agencies of control. I am particularly interested in how targeted people’s emotions relate to—subvert, follow, or amplify—the practices of control imposed on them. My research on issues of securitization has been mainly carried out in sites of forced displacement ranging from cities to refugee camps. I am currently finishing my first book on Palestinians’ experiences of militarism in urban Israel and West Bank refugee camps (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). I am also conducting fieldwork on a new project on refugees and securitized humanitarianism in peripheral Europe.