Critique, security and power: the political limits to empanicipatory approaches

"This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations. In general, 'critical...

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1. Verfasser: McCormack, Tara (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London [u.a.] Routledge 2009
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Routledge critical security studies series
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Zusammenfassung:"This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations. In general, 'critical security' theories and dialogues are understood to be progressive theoretical frameworks that offer a trenchant evaluation and analysis of contemporary international and national security policy. Tara McCormack investigates the limitations of contemporary critical and emancipatory theorizing and its relationship with contemporary power structures."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:VIII, 164 S.
ISBN:9780415485401
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