In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the
importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the …

First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago," governmentality" has
become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences …

This book is about securitization as a theory, a policy, and a framework. 1 Since the
publication of Buzan, Wæver and de Wilde's Security: A New Framework for Analysis in …

Resilience refers to the ability of individuals, groups and societies to withstand and recover
from external shocks. This pioneering book-length comparative study examines resilience …

The interventions of crisis management during the 2007 to 2011 financial crisis were not
simply responses to a set of given developments in markets, banking or neo-liberal …

How do influential social ideas contribute to global governance? This book takes an original
approach to international relations by looking at the way social ideas help to portray the …

In this paper, I argue that critical international theory could benefit from a broader and
deeper conception of the limits of knowledge—that what is needed is more attention to the …

In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the
forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks …

In the decade and a half since its initial formulation and development, securitization theory
has evolved into a remarkably broad and vibrant area of research. Indeed, it is difficult to …

This new Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical
research by a group of leading international scholars in the subdiscipline of Critical Security …