Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction

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, rep