William Walters is a Professor of Politics in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology as well as an FPA Research Excellence Chair (2019-22) at Carleton University. 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
| Institution: | Carleton University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Economic Policy and Financial Issues 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: | Walters, W. 2012. Governmentality: Critical Encounters, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, p.171. [Japanese translation with new preface: Tokyo: Getsuyosha, 2016] Dijstelbloem, H. and Walters, W. 2019. ‘Atmospheric Border Politics: The Morphology of Border and Solidarity Practices in Europe’, Geopolitics. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2019.1577826, pp.1-24. Walters, W. 2019. ‘The Microphysics of Deportation. A Critical Reading of Return Flight Monitoring Reports.’ M. Hoesch and L. Laube (eds) Proceedings of the 2018 ZiF Workshop “Studying Migration Policies at the Interface between Empirical Research and Normative Analysis”, ULB Münster (miami.uni-muenster.de), 161–185. Walters, W. 2018. ‘Expulsion, Power, Mobilization’. Radical Philosophy Series 2 Volume 3 (December): 33-37. Walters, W. 2018. ‘Deportation as Air Power’, Guest Blog, Border Criminologies. Moffette, D. and Walters, W. 2018. ‘Flickering Presence: Theorizing Race and Racism in the Governmentality of Borders and Migration’, Studies in Social Justice. 12(1): 92-110. |
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