Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction by Mark B. Salter

1. Introduction PART I: RESEARCH DESIGN 2. Research Design 3. Wondering as Research Attitude 4. Do You Have What It Takes? Accounting for Emotional and Material Capacities 5. Attuning to 'Mess': Not Presuming to Know Sanctuary 6. Engaging Collaborative Writing Critically 7. Accessing the `Field' of Terrorism Studies PART II: ETHNOGRAPHY 8. Ethnography 9. Travelling with Ethnography 10. Reflexive Inquiry 11. Listening to Migrant Stories: Considerations on Voice 12. Learning by Feeling: Emotional Intelligence and Fieldwork 13. Doing Sensitive Research: Fieldwork Ethics and Methodologies 14. 'China is the Safest Country in the World!¿: Translation, Travel, and the Problem of Fit¿ 15. Methods that Mirror Migration: Ethics and Entanglement En Route 16. Researching Security Decisions at the Border (or Serendipity and Secret Places) 17. `Dangerous' Fieldwork PART III: PRACTICES 18. Practices 19. The Practice of Writing 20. Researching Anti-Deportation: Socialization as Method 21. Expertise in the Aviation Security Field 22. Mapping Urban Security Practices 23. Following Turkish Border Practices PART IV: DISCOURSE 24. Discourse 25. Archives 26. Legislative Practices 27. Problems, Tools, and Creativity: A Pragmatist Approach to Emotion and Security 28. Keeping Secrets: Freedom of Information Requests and Critical Security Studies 29. Understanding Discourses of Arctic In/Security PART V: CORPOREAL 30. The Corporeal 31. Theorizing the Body in IR 32. Reading the Maternal Body as Political Event 33. Sonic Encounters in Critical Security Studies: Reflections from Ethnographic Fieldwork in Morocco 34. Thinking Like a Microbe PART VI: MATERIALITY 35. Materiality 36. Infrastructure 37. The F-35 38. Complicating Risk, Home and the Field: Security Research in Spaces of Control 39. Unlearning Research Methods: Stories of Attunement and Failure 40. Security Technologies and Criticality 41. Materiality and the Production of Objects PART VII: CONCLUSION 42. Emerging Trends