Finding that research in the field of critical security studies has focused more on criticizing established paradigms and practices than on clarity and method, political scientists champion clear research design and rigorous method. In particular, they look at the object of research, the research question, research design, and results and challenges of conducting research. They follow the field through its ethnographic, practice, discursive, corporeal, and material turns. The volume grew from a March 2011 workshop in Ottawa. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, thereby filling a large gap in the literature of this emerging field.
New or critical security studies is growing as a field, but still lacks a clear methodology; the diverse range of the main foci of study (culture, practices, language, or bodies) means that there is little coherence or conversation between these four schools or approaches.
In this ground-breaking collection of fresh and emergent voices, new methods in critical security studies are explored from multiple perspectives, providing practical examples of successful research design and methodologies. Drawing upon their own experiences and projects, thirty-three authors address the following turns over the course of six comprehensive sections:
- Part I: Research Design
- Part II: The Ethnographic Turn
- Part III: The Practice Turn
- Part IV: The Discursive Turn
- Part V: The Corporeal Turn
- Part VI: The Material Turn
This book will be essential reading for upper-level students and researchers in the field of critical security studies, and of much interest to students of sociology, ethnography and IR.
