Critical security studies in the dismantling of security

Calkivik A.

ETUDES INTERNATIONALES, cilt.46, ss.252-270, 2015 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 46
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Dergi Adı: ETUDES INTERNATIONALES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), International Bibliography of Social Sciences, American History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, PAIS International, Political Science Complete, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.252-270
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Critical engagement with security has become a vibrant area of research, giving birth to distinct subfields such as Feminist Security Studies and Critical Terrorism Studies. However, a growing number of critical scholars have begun to question the achievements of this agenda in recent years. They point out how critical discourses on security take on the guise of a new orthodoxy and become complicit in the reproduction of existing power relations. Some go so far as to declare the "death" of critical security studies. In this article, I review these emergent debates on the bottleneck faced by critical security studies and elaborate on the critiques voiced about the current state of the field.