My Critique is Bigger than Yours

Constituting Exclusions in Critical Security Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID12967295
AuthorsDavid Mutimer (0000-0002-3187-7695, York University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume3
Issue1
Pages9-22
Publication date2009-10-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Social Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788
PublisherBrock University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26522/ssj.v3i1.1021
OpenAlexW1570080880
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited10

Critical Security Studies proceeds from the premise that words are world-making, that is that the ways we think about security are constitutive of the worlds of security we analyse. Turned to conventional security studies and the practices of global politics, this critical insight has revealed the ways in which the exclusions that are the focus of this conference have been produced. Perhaps most notable in this regard has been David Campbell's work, showing how the theory and practice of security are an identity discourse producing both insides and outsides, but the production of excluded others is a theme that runs through the critical scholarship on security in the past decade or more. This article turns the critical security studies gaze on itself, to explore the field's own complicity in the production of exclusions. The article reads three important instances of critical security studies for the inclusions and exclusions they produce: Ken Booth's Theory of World Securitv, the epilogue to David Campbell's Writing Security, and the CASE Collective Manifesto. The article concludes by asking about the nature of the inclusions and exclusions these divisions produce and the politics which those exclusions, in turn, (re)produce

Aesthetics · Complicity · Critical security studies · Critical theory · Epistemology · Identity (music · Law and economics · Manifesto · Political science · Politics · Premise · Scholarship · Security studies · Social science · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy

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