Critical methods, political interventions

Convenor: Prof Jef Huysmans

This cluster focuses on the role of methods in security studies and security analysis. Critical Methods refer here to methods that are used in new ways in security studies, being both transformed by and transformative of the theoretical approaches and objects of research. This entails methods that challenge taken-for-granted distinctions between numbers and narratives, nature and culture, materiality and discourse.

The cluster also draws on the relation between method and intervention and discusses how critical methodology makes possible new political interventions that resist both dominant theoretical approaches and insecurity practices.

These discussions have been pursued in the context of the ESRC-funded project, International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies (ICCM).

For further information contact Jef Huysmans.