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This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters – on ‘Ontological security’ and ‘(In)Security and the everyday’ – and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear manner, __Critical Security Studies__: * offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security studies * locates critical security studies within the broader context of social and political theory * evaluates fundamental theoretical positions in critical security studies against a backdrop of new security challenges. The book is divided into two main parts. Part I, ‘Approaches’, surveys the newly extended and contested theoretical terrain of critical security studies: constructivist theories, Critical Theory, feminist and gender approaches, postcolonial perspectives, poststructuralism and International Political Sociology, Ontological security, and securitisation theory. Part II, ‘Issues’, examines how these various theoretical approaches have been put to work in critical considerations of environmental and planetary security;

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Author

Columba Peoples and Nick Vaughan-Williams

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000227376

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Military, Social Science

Updated

2026-03-24