Walters, William
William Walters is a Professor of Politics in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology. His work examines the technopolitics of governing borders and human mobility and focuses on the emergence of new forms of identification and authentication such as the e-passport. He has a previous book project that explores the recent uptake of Foucauldian political sociology within international relations. Other previous research includes a contribution to the genealogy of social citizenship, and a study of the discourse of ‘illegal immigration’ in Europe.
He is currently working on three projects: (1) a book entitled (provisionally) Rethinking Secrecy (forthcoming with Routledge); (2) a SSHRC funded (2017-22) collaborative study of what he called ‘air deporation’ 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). He is also the co-editor (with Martin Geiger, Carleton, and Parvati Raghuram, Open University) of the book series Mobility & Politics.
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Theory, and Political Economy
Listing Details
| Institution: | Carleton University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Economic Policy and Financial Issues Migration Social Movements and Political Mobilization Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | william.walters@carleton.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Lüthi, Barbara & Walters, William. (2024). Opening the blackbox of air deportation: The case of Switzerland's “Action Black Autumn”. The Journal of Transport History. 45. 10.1177/00225266241278758. Borrelli, Lisa & Walters, William. (2024). Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 42. 10.1177/23996544241232325. William Walters (2024) The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities, Mobilities, 19:4, 646-662, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2304857 Wendy Brown, Partha Chatterjee ; Nikolas Rose, Martina Tazzioli & Walters, William (2023). Governmentality: a conversation with Wendy Brown, Partha Chatterjee and Nikolas Rose. In William Walters & Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on governmentality. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Shoshana Fine & William Walters (2022) No place like home? The International Organization for Migration and the new political imaginary of deportation, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48:13, 3060-3077, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1984218 |
