Collaboratory in Critical Security Methods
The International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies is an ESRC funded project (RES-810-21-0072)
Journal articles
Leander (2002) Do we really need reflexivity in IPE? Bourdieu's two reasons for answering affirmatively
Leander, A. (2002). "Do we really need reflexivity in IPE? Bourdieu's two reasons for answering affirmatively." Review of International Political Economy 9(4): 601-609.
This is a short introductory piece by Leander that gives a basic summary of Bourdieu's approach to reflexivity, and how it can be used to explore the impact of research on confronting and exposing the social hierarchies in which it is produced.
Wacquant (1996) Towards a Reflexive Sociology: A Workshop with Pierre Bourdieu
Wacquant, L. J. D. (1996). "Toward a reflexive sociology: A workshop with Pierre Bourdieu." Social theory and sociology: The classics and beyond: 213-229.
This is an article put together by Loic Wacquant and includes transcripts of talks given by Bourdieu to students studying his work. It is a good introduction to some of his tools and how they can be used for critical study of society.
Roberts (1999) Philosophizing the everyday
Roberts, John (1999), "Philosophizing the everyday. The philosophy of praxis and the fate of cultural studies". In: Radical Philosophy, 98 (November/December 1999), pp. 16 - 29
The piece offers a coherent genealogy and critique of the concept of the 'everyday'. In this respect, it is useful for a wider discussion about the status and nature of situated knowledge, because it brings together the philosophy of praxis developed by Lukacs and the critical theory of Benjamin, with Lefebvre's ideas about resistance (and their incorporation into the Situationists' thinking) and with de Certeau's thoughts about everyday practices.
Emirbayer and Mische (1998) What is Agency?
Mustafa Emirbayer and Ann Mische (1998), "What is Agency?". In: American Journal of Sociology, vol. 103, pp. 962-1023.
This article aims (1) to analytically disaggregate agency into its sev- eral component elements (though these are interrelated empirically), (2) to demonstrate the ways in which these agentic dimensions interpenetrate with forms of structure, and (3) to point out the implications of such a conception of agency for empirical research.
Routledge (1996) The Third Space as Critical Engagement
An interesting discussion from a critical geographyer of the intersections between academia and activism - relates to the question of how we negotiate our own situatedness in research.
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Hodges (2008) Rethinking time’s arrow: Bergson, Deleuze and the anthropology of time
Hodges, Matt (2008), "Rethinking time’s arrow: Bergson, Deleuze and the anthropology of time". In: Anthropological Theory 8(4), pp. 399-429.
Since the early 1970s, time has come to the fore as a constitutive element of social analysis in the guise of what the author terms ‘fluid time’. Anthropologists of multiple theoretical persuasions now take for granted that social life exists in ‘time’, ‘flow’, or ‘flux’, and this temporal ontology is commonly accepted as a universal, if habituallyunquestioned, attribute of human experience. Similarly, it underpins today’s dominant paradigm of ‘processual’ analysis, in its many forms.
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.
Clough (2010) The Case of Sociology: Governmentality and Methodology
Patricia Ticineto Clough (2010), The Case of Sociology: Governmentality and Methodology, Critical Inquiry vol. 36 no. 4: 627-641.
This article discusses the contributions to a special issue 'On the case' in Critical Inquiry. It sh argues that qualitative methodology in sociology can produce untimely political effects. The author encourages the further development of ways to think across the methodologies of sociology and critical theory and cultural criticism in order to address governance while giving freer rein to the indeterminacy of the in-between of the exceptional and the unexceptional ordinary.
Laclau and Mouffe (1987) Postmarxism without apologies
Laclau, Ernesto and Mouffe, Chantal (1987), "Postmarxism without Apologies". In: New Left Review, Vol. 166, pp. 79-106.
In this article, Laclau & Mouffe respond to their critics. After the publication of "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" in 1985 a number of scholars have criticized their rethinking of the socialist project. One of the main ciriticism has been levelled against Laclau & Mouffe's conception of discourse. What today seems to be a defendable and accepted position, i.e. that objects are above all discursively constructed and that they only become meaningful via discourse, sparked major criticism at that time.
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.