Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface to the 2nd edition -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Research design -- Chapter 2 Research design -- Chapter 3 Wondering as research attitude -- Chapter 4 Do you have what it takes? : Accounting for emotional and material capacities -- Chapter 5 Attuning to "mess": Not presuming to know sanctuary -- Chapter 6 Engaging collaborative writing critically -- Chapter 7 Accessing the "field" of terrorism studies -- Part II Ethnography -- Chapter 8 Ethnography -- Chapter 9 Travelling with ethnography -- Chapter 10 Reflexive inquiry -- Chapter 11 Listening to migrant stories: Considerations on voice -- Chapter 12 Learning by feeling: Emotional intelligence and fieldwork -- Chapter 13 Doing sensitive research: Fieldwork ethics and methodologies -- Chapter 14 'China is the safest country in the world!': Translation, travel, and the problem of 'fit' -- Chapter 15 Methods that mirror migration: Ethics and entanglement en route -- Chapter 16 Researching security decisions at the border (or serendipity and secret places) -- Chapter 17 'Dangerous' fieldwork -- Part III Practices -- Chapter 18 Practices -- Chapter 19 The practice of writing -- Chapter 20 Researching anti-deportation: Socialization as method -- Chapter 21 Expertise in the aviation security field -- Chapter 22 Mapping urban security practices -- Chapter 23 Following Turkish border practices -- Part IV Discourse -- Chapter 24 Discourse -- Chapter 25 Archives -- Chapter 26 Legislative practices -- Chapter 27 Problems, tools, and creativity: A pragmatist approach to emotion and security -- Chapter 28 Keeping secrets: Freedom of information requests and critical security studies.

"This textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, filling a gap in the literature. The 2nd edition has been revised and updated. This textbook is a practical guide to research design in this increasingly established field. Arguing for a serious attention to questions of research design and method, the book develops accessible scholarly overviews of key methods used across critical security studies, such as ethnography, discourse analysis, materiality and corporeal methods. It draws on prominent examples of each method's objects of analysis, relevant data, and forms of data collection. The book's defining feature is the collection of diverse accounts of research design from scholars working within each method, each of which is a clear and honest recounting of a specific project's design and development. This second edition is extensively revised and expanded. Its 33 contributors reflect the sheer diversity of critical security studies today, representing various career stages, scholarly interests, and identities. This book is systematic in its approach to research design but keeps a reflexive and pluralist approach to the question of methods and how they can be used. The second edition has a new forward-looking conclusion examining future research trends and challenges for the field. This book will be essential reading for upper-level students and researchers in the field of critical security studies, and of much interest to students in International Relations and across the social sciences"--

"This textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, filling a gap in the literature. The 2nd edition has been revised and updated. This textbook is a practical guide to research design in this increasingly established field. Arguing for a serious attention to questions of research design and method, the book develops accessible scholarly overviews of key methods used across critical security studies, such as ethnography, discourse analysis, materiality and corporeal methods. It draws on prominent examples of each method's objects of analysis, relevant data, and forms of data collection. The book's defining feature is the collection of diverse accounts of research design from scholars working within each method, each of which is a clear and honest recounting of a specific project's design and development. This second edition is extensively revised and expanded. Its 33 contributors reflect the sheer diversity of critical security studies today, representing various career stages, scholarly interests, and identities. This book is systematic in its approach to research design but keeps a reflexive and pluralist approach to the question of methods and how they can be used. The second edition has a new forward-looking conclusion examining future research trends and challenges for the field. This book will be essential reading for upper-level students and researchers in the field of critical security studies, and of much interest to students in International Relations and across the social sciences"--