Critical security studies
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Critical security studies (CSS) is an
Definition
Defining critical security studies can be difficult due to the wide range of theories involved, meaning that any single definition is likely to exclude works and scholars who would list themselves, or be listed by most scholars as part of the subfield.
Uses of the term
The term "critical security studies" is most often used to refer to some variation of the above definition of critical security studies, as a subfield of security studies or a set of alternative paradigms within that field. However, it has also been used to refer to a specific strand of approaches within this subfield, which has as its most characteristic element a commitment to emancipatory theory that is not shared by other critical approaches to security.[7] The authors representing this latter view, such as Ken Booth and Richard Wyn Jones, are usually referred to as the Aberystwyth or Welsh School to avoid ambiguity.[8][9]
See also
- Critical theory
- Critical international relations theory
- Copenhagen School (international relations)
- Welsh School (security studies)
- International political sociology
- Postmodernism (international relations)
References
- ^ Browning, C. S., & McDonald, M. (2011). The future of critical security studies: Ethics and the politics of security. European Journal of International Relations, 19(2), 238
- ^ The future of critical security studies, 236
- ^ The future of critical security studies, 236
- ^ The future of critical security studies, 236
- ^ The future of critical security studies, 235
- ^ Peoples, Vaughan-Williams (2021). Critical security studies: An introduction (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge.
- ^ Williams, Paul (2005) 'Critical Security Studies' in International Society and Its Critics, A. Bellamy (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 135
- ^ C.A.S.E. collective (2006). "Critical Approaches to Security in Europe. A Networked Manifesto". Security Dialogue. 37 (4): 448.
- ^ Peoples, Vaughan-Williams (2021). Critical security studies: An introduction (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 32.
Further reading
- Krause, K., & Williams, M. C. (1997). Critical security studies: Concepts and strategies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781857287332
- Peoples, C., & Vaughan-Williams, N. (2021). Critical security studies: An introduction (3rd edition). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367224257
- Salter, M., & Mutlu, C. E. (eds.). (2013). Research methods in critical security studies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415535397