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The only introduction to critical security studies to take a question-centred approach, with a unique emphasis on equipping students with the knowledge and skills to think, analyse, and debate using critical perspectives. Security Studies: Critical Perspectives introduces the analysis of security from critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Taking a student-centred approach to understanding contemporary security themes and cases, it provides an accessible set of analytic steps so that students develop the critical thinking skills and confidence to ask important questions about security and our worlds in contemporary politics. Common-sense security assumptions that reproduce forms of oppression and domination are revealed and their justifications decentred while perspectives inclusive of class, gender and sexualities, ethnicity and race, religion, disability, culture and ideology, political belonging, and the global south are introduced. In doing so, the authors combine critical analysis with concrete empirical issues that connect students to the social and political worlds around them.
Five foundation chapters introducing students to key concepts and methodologies
Fifteen thematic chapters, written by leading security analysts exploring key themes in security
Detailed illustrative cases for each thematic chapter
Approaching security critically
1:What is critique?, Xavier Guillaume and Kyle Grayson
2:Security, Xavier Guillaume and Kyle Grayson
3:Orders, power and hierarchies, Xavier Guillaume and Kyle Grayson
4:Political violence, Xavier Guillaume and Kyle Grayson
5:Critical Questions, Xavier Guillaume and Kyle Grayson
Key Themes in Security Studies
6:Policing, Cédric Moreau de Bellaing
7:War and socio-political orders, Victoria Basham
8:Terrorism and asymmetric conflicts, Christian Olsson
Security as Identity
9:Identity and othering, Melody Fonseca Santos
10:Gender and sexuality, Jennifer Hobbs and Laura McLeod
11:Nationalism, racism and xenophobia, Philippe M. Frowd
Security as Political Economy
12:Securing development, developing security?, Maria Stern
13:Health, Sara E. Davies and Jessica Kirk
14:Property, extraction and accumulation, Caitlin Ryan
Security as Technology
15:Digital, (in)security and violence, Rocco Bellanova
16:Security and design, Mark Lacy
17:Weapon-systems, Michael Bourne
Security as Space
18:Environment, Madeleine Fagan
19:Borders and mobility, Benjamin J. Muller
20:Prisons and Camps, Anna Schliehe
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The only introduction to critical security studies to take a question-centred approach, with a unique emphasis on equipping students with the knowledge and skills to think, analyse, and debate using critical perspectives. Security Studies: Critical Perspectives introduces the analysis of security from critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Taking a student-centred approach to understanding contemporary security themes and cases, it provides an accessible set of analytic steps so that students develop the critical thinking skills and confidence to ask important questions about security and our worlds in contemporary politics. Common-sense security assumptions that reproduce forms of oppression and domination are revealed and their justifications decentred while perspectives inclusive of class, gender and sexualities, ethnicity and race, religion, disability, culture and ideology, political belonging, and the global south are introduced. In doing so, the authors combine critical analysis with concrete empirical issues that connect students to the social and political worlds around them.
Five foundation chapters introducing students to key concepts and methodologies
Fifteen thematic chapters, written by leading security analysts exploring key themes in security
Detailed illustrative cases for each thematic chapter
