Online-Vortreffen: 5.7.2022, 14 Uhr, Kontakt: markus.hochmueller@fu-berlin.de. Die Lehrperson wird noch über die konkreten Termine des Online-Projektmoduls und die Phasen des selbstständigen Lernens informieren. Erste Videokonferenz im Wintersemester: 26.10.2022, 14 Uhr (Webex-Link wird über Blackboard bereitgestellt) close

This module introduces students to the field of critical security studies. It is organised in three parts. First, it will provide students with a systematic overview of debates, concepts, and theories. It will highlight the differences to related approaches of (international) security and the role of security and securitizing discourses and practices in society. Furthermore, the relation between the concepts of critique and emancipation will be discussed. Students will be reading the seminal texts of a) key scholarship of the main schools of critical security studies, and b) neighbouring fields such as critical theory, gender studies, constructivism, and postcolonial studies. Second, the module introduces relevant (qualitative) research methods as well as strategies to develop critical research designs. Finally, it illustrates the theoretical approaches with case studies from Latin America and the Caribbean. The module will enable students to critically engage with the literature, to develop analytical and argumentative skills, to identify and discuss competing analytical perspectives, to employ appropriate approaches to specific research problems, and to apply analytical tools in their own research. close

Keith Krause and Michael Williams (2018): “Security and 'Security Studies': Conceptual Evolution and Historical Transformation”. In: Alexandra Gheciu and William C. Wohlforth (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of International Security. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.001.0001. Columba Peoples and Nick Vaughan-Williams (2020): Critical Security Studies: An Introduction. 3rd Edition. London: Routledge. Arlene B. Tickner (2020): Militarismo, estado y democracia: Los estudios de seguridad en América Latina. Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/la-seguridad/16915.pdf. close