Critical Security Methods

Claudia Aradau is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, and is author of Rethinking Trafficking in Women (2008) and co-author, with Rens van Munster, of Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown (Routledge 2011).Jef Huysmans is Professor of Security Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at the Open University (UK). He is author of Security Unbound (2014), The Politics of Insecurity (2006) and What is Politics? (2005), and editor of several volumes. Andrew Neal is Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, and author of Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism (Routledge 2010) and co-editor, with Michael Dillon, of Foucault on Politics, Security and War (2008).Nadine Voelkner is Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and International Organization (IRIO), University of Groningen.

• 1. Introducing Critical Security Methods 2. Mapping 3. Visuality 4. Discourses and Materialities 5. Proximity 6. Genealogy 7. Collaboration

'The contributors to Critical Security Methods show us why talking about methods is engaging. All of us digging into security's myriad manifestations puzzle over what we are doing out there in the mythical "field". Here is a book that joins us in that candid, valuable puzzling.' -- Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, MA, USA‘Breaking free from the conventional strictures of methodology, Critical Security Methods offers readers a wonderful panoply of new approaches for thinking about method, methods and methodology…. A generous service to the community of scholars engaged in thinking through the aporias of contemporary security policy.’ -- Stefan Elbe, University of Sussex, UK'Through three distinct moves that complicate rather than separate the relations between theory and method, this book offers a new critical sensibility to questions of method. By providing an analytic framework that attends to methods as practices, experiments and performative, it is not only relevant to CSS but critical methods in the social sciences more generally.’ -- Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK