Collaboratory in Critical Security Methods
The International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies is an ESRC funded project (RES-810-21-0072)
Library
Clough (2009) The New Empiricism: Affect and Sociological Method
Clough, Patricia (2009), "The New Empiricism: Affect and Sociological Method". In: European Journal of Social Theory 12 (1), pp. 43-61.
Sociological methodology is rethought in terms of what cultural critics refer to as infraempiricism that allows for a rethinking of bodies, matter and life through new encounters with visceral perception and pre-conscious affect. Thinking infra-empiricism as a new empiricism at this time means rethinking methodology in relationship to the changing configuration of economy, governance disciplinarity and control in the early twenty-first century.
Vuori (2010) A Timely Prophet? The Doomsday Clock as a Visualization of Securitization Moves with a Global Referent Object
Vuori, Juha A. (2010), "A Timely Prophet? The Doomsday Clock as a Visualization of Securitization Moves with a Global Referent Object". In: Security Dialogue Vol 41, pp. 255-277
There have been numerous calls to include images in the analysis of securitization and the social construction of security issues. The present article answers these calls by examining a longstanding process of securitization in which speech acts have been interwoven with a powerful symbol. Looking into the past and a visualization of possible futures, the article traces the resets of the so-called Doomsday Clock of the Atomic Scientists as securitization/desecuritization moves with a global referent object.
Coutin and Hirsch (1998) Naming Resistance: Ethnographers, Dissidents, and States
Coutin, Susan B., and Hirsch, Susan F. (1998) "Naming resistance: Ethnographers, dissidents, and states", In: Anthropological Quarterly 71(1), pp. 1-17.
Ethnographic analyses of political dissidence are deeply implicated in the political contests about which ethnographers write. A comparison of the authors' fieldwork among dissidents in Argentina, Kenya, and the United States reveals both the differing dynamics of contests over thepolitical and the complex ways that ethnographers are situated within such contests.
Stuvoey (2010) Human Security Research Practices: Conceptualizing Security for Women’s Crisis Centres in Russia
Suggested reading material for methods course
Stuvoey, K. (2010) "Human Security Research Practices: Conceptualizing Security for Women’s Crisis Centres in Russia" Security Dialogue. Vol. 41(3): 279–299
In ongoing discussions surrounding the issue of human security, the security of individuals has become entangled in conceptual debates that are preoccupied with notions of appropriate variables, measure- ments and issue areas. This article suggests and illustrates a basis for human security research that is distinct from such objectivist empiri- cism. A case study of crisis centres in northwest Russia is used to demonstrate that human security is not only a matter for objectified generalizations, but also a question of practices.
Law, Ruppert and Savage (2011) The Double Social Life of Methods
Law, John, Rupert, Evelyn, Savage, Mike (2011) "The Double Social life of Methods". Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), Working Paper No 95
This Working Paper was written within the CRESC cross theme research "The Social Life of Methods". Hereby Law, Ruppert and Savage explore how social research methods are not only a toolkit to know the world but they actually play a role in shaping and creating society.
Leigh Star (2010) This is Not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept
Leigh Star, Susan (2010): "This is Not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept", in: Sceinece, technology, & Human Values 35(5): 601-617.
There are three components to boundary objects as outlined in the original 1989 article. Interpretive flexibility, the structure of informatic and work process needs and arrangements, and, finally, the dynamic between illstructured and more tailored uses of the objects. Much of the use of the concept has concentrated on the aspect of interpretive flexibility and has often mistaken or conflated this flexibility with the process of tacking back-and-forth between the ill-structured and well-structured aspects of the arrangements.
Waterton (2010) Experimenting with the Archive: STSers As Analysts and Co-constructors of Databases and Other Archival Forms
Waterton, Claire (2010): "Experimenting with the Archive: STSers As Analysts and Co-constructors of Databases and Other Archival Forms", in: Science, Technology, & Human Values 35(5): 645-676.
This article is about recent attempts by scholars, database practitioners, and curators to experiment in theoretically interesting ways with the conceptual design and the building of databases, archives, and other information systems. This article uses the term ‘‘archive’’ (following Derrida’s Archive Fever 1998/1995 and Bowker’s Memory Practices in the Sciences 2005) as an overarching category to include a diversity of technologies used to inventory objects and knowledge, to commit them to memory and for future use.
Veyne (1997) Foucault Revolutionizes History
Veyne, Paul (1997), "Foucault Revolutionizes History." In: Davidson, Arnold I. (1997), "Foucault and His Interlocutors", Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, pp146-82.
This seminal chapter discusses the importance of Foucault's notion of practice for history and genealogy.
Along with two chapters from Dreyfus and Rabinow, this forms the basis of our starting discussion in the Method 5 forum.
Foucault (1984) Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
Foucault, M. (1994). 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History' in J. Faubian (ed.), Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Vol. 2 London: Penguin Books pp. 369-392.
In this article Foucault discusses the implications of Nietzsche’s genealogical method for the analysis of history. It is a seminal article in Foucault’s early development of the genealogical method which he would develop and employ in his own work.
Deleuze (1992) What is a Dispositif?
Deleuze, G. (1992). 'What is a Dispositif?' in T.J. Armstrong (ed), Michel Foucault Philosopher. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf pp. 159-168.
In this article Gilles Deleuze reflects on Foucault's elusive concept of the dispositif and its significance to a philosophy of social apparatuses.