Scott Watson

Scott Watson Research interests: securitisation and the social construction of security/insecurity, international relations theory, international security, migration and refugee policy.

Contact Dr. Watson

Office Hours: By appointment
Office: SSM A339
Phone: 250-472-4715
Email: sdwatson@uvic.ca

Grad Advisor Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30 - 4:30 pm

Office: SSM A320
Grad Advisor Phone: 250-853-3527
Grad Advisor Email: gradpol@uvic.ca

Bio

Scott Watson received his BA (History) and MA (Political Science) from the University of Waterloo, and his PhD from the University of British Columbia (2006). He joined the University of Victoria as in 2006. He is an Associate Professor.

His research interests have centered on the construction of security threats and conditions of ‘national’ insecurity, particularly in the realm of migration; as well as the role various actors play in these processes.

He recently published his first monograph The Securitisation of Humanitarian Migration (Routledge, 2009)

His current research interests include re-conceptualizing human security as a process of securitisation; mapping the relationship of the mass media to the construction of insecurity; and exploring how private insecurity corporations support and subvert statist discourses of danger in the realm of migration and contagious disease.

He is also faculty advisor for the WUSC UVic local committee.

Scott Watson teaches courses on international relations, security studies, nationalism and ethnic conflict and ethics in world politics.

Publications

Articles

2012 - "Framing the Copenhagen School: Integrating the Threat Construction Literature", Millennium Journal of International Studies 40:2
2011 - "Impugning the Humanitarian Defense" International Migration, Vol. 49 (3)
2011 - "The "Human" as the Referent Object of Security: A re-conceptualization of humanitarianism and human security", Security Dialogue, Vol. 42 (1)
2011 - "Back Home Safe and Sound: The Public and Private Production of Insecruity" International Political Sociology, Vol 5:2
2007 - "Manufacturing Threats: Asylum Seekers as Threats or Refugees?" Journal of International Law and International Relations, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2007) pp 95-116