Opening security

Recovering Critical Scholarship as Political

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7737544
AutoresAnnick T R Wibben (0000-0001-8545-077X, University of San Francisco, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume4
Fascículo2
Páginas137-153
Data de publicação2016-05-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Studies on Security (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2162-4887 • E-ISSN: 2162-4909
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21624887.2016.1146528
OpenAlexW2343994867
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas65

This article proposes that highlighting the theoretical and political challenges of 'doing security' is key to critical scholarship on security. In addition to broadening and deepening security, an opening of security is necessary to generate new security imaginaries. The article argues that an opening, which calls the frame into question and emphasizes everyday security enactments, is latent in existing scholarship but has not been explicitly named and explored. Paying attention to the epistemological and ontological implications of critical interventions – asking what, how, and who can know – is key to challenging security politics more deeply. It is essential to simultaneously examine what frames are enacted, how, by whom, when, where, and to what end. Drawing primarily on feminist, but also on poststructural and postcolonial scholarship, opening security moves us beyond adjusting the technologies of security and engages, as its central concern, the politics of security

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