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This textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, filling a gap in the literature. The second edition has been revised and updated. This textbook is a practical guide to research design in this increasingly established field. Arguing for 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.

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Mark B. Salter is Professor in the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the author/editor of eight books, including Making Things International 1 and 2 (2015 and 2016). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Security Dialogue. Can E. Mutlu is Associate Professor of Global Politics at Acadia University in Wolfville, NS, Canada. His research interests include borders, migration, technology, and security. He is the co-editor of Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility (with Benjamin J. Muller). Philippe M. Frowd is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on the governance of irregular migration and border control in the Sahel region of West Africa. He is the author of Security at the Borders (2018).

Critics' Reviews

‘Questions of method have become increasing pertinent to the pedagogies and research practices of critical security studies. Research Methods in Critical Security Studies (2nd edition) makes a timely contribution by providing a range of answers to these questions. In doing so, RMCSS strikes a judicious balance that will appeal to seasoned researchers looking to adopt new approaches as well as students who may be embarking upon their first substantive research project in the field. While richly informed by cutting edge conceptual, methodological, and theoretical literature, the discussions are practical, precise, and plain-spoken—they cut straight to the chase in order to equip the reader with capabilities to do reflexive research in critical security studies and navigate common challenges found within and across methods. With new chapters and updated materials, the 2nd edition captures recent developments within the field while maintaining the accessibility and pragmatism that were hallmarks of the first edition. As such, the 2nd edition is an excellent teaching and research resource for everyone in the field.’ Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University, UK 'This volume shows how doing critical and reflexive research can go hand-in-hand with rigorous methodology. The book is indispensable to researchers in critical security studies broadly defined, from graduate student to project leader. It is filled with useful practical examples and fascinating case studies. I have used it in my thesis seminar for years, and it is great that we now have an updated and expanded second edition, that combines attention to state-of-the-art theory with clear advice on practical means and modes of doing research.' Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 'If ''methods'' are off-the-shelf tools that can be casually picked up and deployed, then this is not a methods book. It is instead an invitation to critical inquiry, and a rich tapestry of examples showing how attitudes of reflexivity and a healthy skepticism about received concepts and categories are in no way incompatible with clear and sustained attention to questions of research design. This is a rich feast for critical researchers to devour.' Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University, USA

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Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction 1st Edition

This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, thereby filling a large gap in the literature of this emerging field.

New or critical security studies is growing as a field, but still lacks a clear methodology; the diverse range of the main foci of study (culture, practices, language, or bodies) means that there is little coherence or conversation between these four schools or approaches.

In this ground-breaking collection of fresh and emergent voices, new methods in critical security studies are explored from multiple perspectives, providing practical examples of successful research design and methodologies. Drawing upon their own experiences and projects, thirty-three authors address the following turns over the course of six comprehensive sections:

• Part I: Research Design
• Part II: The Ethnographic Turn
• Part III: The Practice Turn
• Part IV: The Discursive Turn
• Part V: The Corporeal Turn
• Part VI: The Material Turn

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 of sociology, ethnography and IR.

• ISBN-10 0415535395
• ISBN-13 978-0415535397
• Edition 1st
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date October 22, 2012
• Language English
• Dimensions 7 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches
• Print length 256 pages
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Editorial Reviews

"Finally, critical security studies has its own methodological handbook. It is not only extremely broad in scope, applying methods ranging from participant observation to interviews to discourse analysis, and discussing research design, ethnography, empiricism and writing. But it is also refreshingly reflexive in its approach. Its exploration of method is intimately bound to an advancement of theory, and a critical reflection on the role of the researcher in this sensitive – and often secretive –domain. It is indispensable reading for researchers and students alike, and promises to take this important field of research to a new level."– Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'This textbook moves critical security studies forward in important ways by restoring "methodology" to the full sense of concept and rescuing it from the narrowness imposed by mainstream social science. ’ -- Roxanne Lynn Doty, Arizona State University, USA

'Wide-ranging and yet systematic, rigorous and yet pluralistic, this volume makes a crucial contribution toward developing innovative methodologies able to terms with the rapidly changing politics of contemporary security. Combining sophisticated conceptual overviews with illustrations of specific research designs in practice, it is a remarkably valuable resource for students and researchers, as well as an inspiring tour d’ horizon of cutting-edge research. ' -- Michael C Williams, University of Ottawa, Canada

About the Author

Mark B. Salter is Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is editor of Mapping Transatlantic Security Relations (Routledge 2010), and author of Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations (2003) and Barbarians and Civilization in International Relations (2002) .

Can E. Mutlu is a PhD candidate (ABD) at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the Communications Director of the International Political Sociology Section of the International Studies Association (IPS-ISA).

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (October 22, 2012)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415535395
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415535397
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches

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Book description

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.

Table of contents

• Endorsements
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface to the 2nd edition
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Research design
• 3 Wondering as research attitude
• 4 Do you have what it takes?: Accounting for emotional and material capacities
• 5 Attuning to “mess”: Not presuming to know sanctuary
• 6 Engaging collaborative writing critically
• 7 Accessing the “field” of terrorism studies
• 8 Ethnography
• 9 Travelling with ethnography
• 10 Reflexive inquiry
• 11 Listening to migrant stories: Considerations on voice
• 12 Learning by feeling: Emotional intelligence and fieldwork
• 13 Doing sensitive research: Fieldwork ethics and methodologies
• 14 ‘China is the safest country in the world!’: Translation, travel, and the problem of ‘fit’
• 15 Methods that mirror migration: Ethics and entanglement en route
• 16 Researching security decisions at the border (or serendipity and secret places)
• 17 ‘Dangerous’ fieldwork
• 18 Practices
• 19 The practice of writing
• 20 Researching anti-deportation: Socialization as method
• 21 Expertise in the aviation security field
• 22 Mapping urban security practices
• 23 Following Turkish border practices
• 24 Discourse
• 25 Archives
• 26 Legislative practices
• 27 Problems, tools, and creativity: A pragmatist approach to emotion and security
• 28 Keeping secrets: Freedom of information requests and critical security studies
• 29 Understanding discourses of Arctic in/security
• 30 The corporeal
• 31 Theorizing the body in IR
• 32 Reading the maternal body as political event
• 33 Sonic encounters in critical security studies: Reflections from ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco
• 34 Thinking like a microbe
• 35 Materiality
• 36 Infrastructure
• 37 The F-35
• 38 Complicating risk, home, and the field: Security research in spaces of control
• 39 Unlearning research methods: Stories of attunement and failure
• 40 Security technologies and criticality
• 41 Materiality and the production of objects
• 42 Emerging trends

Product information

• Title: Research Methods in Critical Security Studies, 2nd Edition
• Author(s): Mark B. Salter, Can E. Mutlu, Philippe M. Frowd
• Release date: May 2023
• Publisher(s): Routledge
• ISBN: 9781000863499

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By focusing on research design and critique, the people are highlighting methodological questions over ontological abstraction: how the people do what they do, rather than the nature of doing. Contemporary critical scholars are also fond of Socratic irony, in particular, emphasizing the openness or serendipitous nature of their methods, which may appear as weakness to more traditional scholars. In foregrounding discourse, materiality, ethnography, the corporeal, and practice the people commit to the entrenching of these methods in International Relations (IR). The immersive nature of ethnographic study challenges the possibility of a neat division between the researcher and the object of research and can be transformational to both. Indebted to feminist scholarship and poststructuralist work inspired by Foucault, corporeal approaches examine the way that the body is both a site of politics and a site of resistance. Approaches focusing on materiality, be they object-analysis or “new materialisms” examine complex assemblages of things and humans, refusing to privilege the human.

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