Critical Security Methods

New Frameworks for Analysis

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ID19935129
EditorsClaudia Aradau (0000-0003-2010-9006), Jef Huysmans, Andrew Neal (0000-0002-5344-9376), Nadine Voelkner (0000-0002-4310-8025)
Year2014
Publication date2014-08-13
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCritical Security Methods (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315881549
OpenAlexW1796975770
Open LibraryOL34627616M
ISBN9781134716197
LanguageEN
Citations received49

Critical Security Methods offers a new approach to research methods in critical security studies. It argues that methods are not simply tools to bridge the gap between security theory and security practice. Rather, to practise methods critically means engaging in a more free and experimental interplay between theory, methods and practice. This recognises that the security practices we research are often methods in their own right, as forms of surveillance, data mining, visualisation, and so on, and that our own research methods are themselves practices that intervene and interfere in those sites of security and insecurity. Against the familiar methdological language of rigour, detachment and procedural consistency, Critical Security Methods reclaims the idea of method as experiment. The chapters offer a series of methodological experimentations that assemble concepts, theory and empirical cases into new frameworks for critical security research. They show how critical engagement and methodological innovation can be practiced as interventions into diverse instances of insecurity and securitisation, including airports, drug trafficking, peasant struggles, biometrics and police kettling. The book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in critical security studies, politics and international relations

Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health · Peacebuilding and International Security · General · International Relations · International Security · Méthodologie · Methodology · National security · Political Freedom & Security · Political science · Recherche · Relations internationales · Research · Security, International

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