Counting security in the vernacular: Quantification rhetoric in “everyday”(in) security discourse

L Jarvis - International Political Sociology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent years have witnessed a “vernacular turn” in critical security scholarship centered on
everyday constructions of (in) security. In this article, I advance this turn by arguing for …

How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?

J Wallis - Cooperation and Conflict, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
What happens if international interveners feel emotions that they consider unsanctioned,
unwanted and unprofessional? What if they enact and manage their emotions in ways that …

The technopolitics of border security R&D: Shaping the EU's border in the Security Research Programme

C Binder - Security Dialogue, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Technologies are predominantly understood as 'solutions' for policy problems in EU border
control. This has prompted increased political attention to research and development (R&D) …

Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?

J Nyman - European Journal of International Relations, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Existing scholarship has demonstrated that theorising about security is Eurocentric. This
leaves us with a partial account of the concept of security, which is presented as universal …

[PDF][PDF] Political Visual Literacy

Y Galai - International Political Sociology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Visual politics is a fast-growing field and much of it is focused on images that inspire
criticism. This tendency results in a lack of attention to oppressive visual practices. A political …

Images and indicators: Mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour

T Fairey, P Firchow, P Dixon - Action Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods
by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not …

Security politics and techno-securitisation in Star Wars: from the Fall of the Jedi to the Reign of the Empire

C Atkinson - Contemporary social science, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Star Wars franchise–and in particular the 'in-universe'period from the Fall of
the Jedi to the Reign of the Empire–represents germane ground for the critical analysis of …

Women's entrepreneurship in the informal economy: A socio-spatial perspective

M Xheneti, A Madden - human relations, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
What role does 'space'play in shaping entrepreneurial choices? Much of the western-centric
evidence offers abstract models of spatial dynamics, reflecting socio-cultural assumptions …

Authoritarianism, perceptions of security threats, and the COVID-19 pandemic: A new perspective

D Stevens, S Banducci, L Horvath - Politics and the Life Sciences, 2024 - cambridge.org
This article offers a new perspective on when and why individual-level authoritarian
perceptions of security threats change. We reexamine claims that authoritarian members of …

[PDF][PDF] A decolonial feminist politics of fieldwork: centering community, reflexivity, and loving accountability

AR Boer Cueva, K Giri, C Hamilton… - International Studies …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
International studies scholarship has benefitted from insights from anthropology, peace and
conflict studies, geography, and other disciplines to craft a thoughtful set of reflections and …