Pitfalls of Emancipation and Discourses of Security

Reflections on Canada's 'Security with a Human Face

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4444952
AutoresMark Neufeld (Trent University, Ontario, Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen18
Número1
Páginas109-123
Fecha de publicación2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117804041744
OpenAlexW2025835459
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas9

The call to develop self-consciously critical approaches to security stands as one of the more hopeful intellectual developments in recent years. It is argued that a critical - and hence, emancipatory - strategy is one which focuses on the more 'empirical' question of how security issues are framed in political discourse. Here the emphasis is on exploring how different conceptions of security - both traditional and expanded - find their way into public debates; how specific values are made socially concrete in this process, and how people both act and are acted upon in the process of history unfolding. The merits of this approach are illustrated by examining a concrete case: the evolution of security discourse in Canada in the latter half of the 20th century, and the function of that discourse in terms of changing forms of state and world order

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