Critical Approaches to Security: An Introduction to Theories and Methods

ISBN-13: 9780415680172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str.

Laura J. Shepherd

Opis

With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and an introduction that traces the development of critical approaches to security, this textbook encourages readers to develop a curiosity about the study and practices of security politics and international relations.

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).