Critical Approaches to Security: An Introduction to Theories and Methods

ISBN-13: 9780415680165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str.

Laura J Shepherd

Opis

Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical perspectives and a variety of methodological techniques. With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and an introduction that traces the development of critical approaches to security, this textbook will encourage all those who engage with it to develop a curiosity about the study and practices of security politics. Challenging the assumptions of conventional theories and approaches, unsettling that which was previously taken for granted - these are among the ways in which such a curiosity works. Through its attention to the fact that, and the ways in which, security matters in global politics, this work will both pioneer new ways of studying security and acknowledge the noteworthy scholarship without which it could not have been thought.

Spis treści

Foreword, Ken Booth  1. Introduction: Critical Approaches to Security in Contemporary Global Politics, Laura J. Shepherd  Part I: Theories: How do we See the World? 2. Feminist Security Studies, Laura J. Shepherd  3. Human security, Natalie Florea Hudson, Alex Kreidenweis and Charli Carpenter  4. Green security, Emma Foster  5. Securitisation Theory, Jonna Nyman  6. Security as Emancipation, Soumita Basu and Joao Reis Nunes  7. Poststructural Security Studies, Anthony Burke  8. Postcolonial Security Studies, Shampa Biswas  Part II: Methods: Collecting and Analysing Data  9. Quantitative Methods, Laura Sjoberg and Jeffrey Horowitz  10. Archival Research and Document Analysis, Marc Froese  11. Ethnographic Methods, Cai Wilkinson  12. Participatory Action Research, Elizabeth Shannon Wheatley and Eric Hartmann  13. Elite Interviews, Ruth Blakeley  14. Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS), Oz Hassan  15. Social Network Analysis, Raluca Soreanu and Anca Simionca  16. Predication, Presupposition and Subject-Positioning, Linda Åhäll and Stefan Borg  17. Deconstruction as ‘Anti-Method’, Penny Griffin  18. Visual Analysis, Cerwyn Moore and Chris Farrands  19. Conclusion: The Process, Practice and Ethics of Research, Lee Jarvis

O autorze

Laura J. Shepherd is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is author/editor of four books, including Gender Matters in Global Politics (2010).