Security! How Do You Study It? An Introduction into Critical Methodologies and Research Methods
Security! How Do You Study It? An Introduction into Critical Methodologies and Research Methods

Author(s): Václav Walach, Ľubomír Lupták
Subject(s): Security and defense, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Security; Methodologies and Research Methods; critical security studies;
Summary/Abstract: It has been over fifteen years since Jef Huysmans (1998) posed the question essential for every student of security: “Security! What do you mean?” Several theoretical orientations have crystallized in response, confirming Huysmans’s observation that the “exploration of the meaning of security is the security studies agenda itself” (1998: 223). There were few analyses dividing critical security studies into schools of thought (Wæver 2004; Taureck 2006) as well as a synthesis attempting to “go beyond the artificial boundaries in order to combine a variety of critical approaches under a common framework without, nonetheless, reducing one approach to another” (C.A.S.E. Collective 2006: 451). And no matter how many new security issues are identified (Burgess 2010), the meaning of security remains contested, as distinctive and mutually exclusive logics of security are theorized.

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