Topologies of security: inquiring in/security across postcolonial and postsocialist scenes

IF 1.8 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
A. Dwyer, A. Langenohl, Philipp Lottholz
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ABSTRACT Postcolonial and postsocialist thought has critiqued Critical Security Studies (CSS) on its Eurocentric orientation in terms of its concepts, categories, and concerns of security. In this introductory text, we discuss a concept in tension – topology/scene – to deepen a dialogue between postcolonial and postsocialist scholarship alongside insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS). Drawing on various contributions, we demonstrate how topology/scene enables critical reflections on how the ‘networked’, material approaches to security exemplified by STS can be put into a productive conversation with critiques grounded in postcolonial and postsocialist theory and praxis. Topologies and scenes of security are thus offered as a method to reflect, interrogate, and question existing relationalities of in/security as well as the power of different materials, discourses, organisations, and people in various times and places. We seek to move beyond the scalar hierarchies of ‘local’ and ‘global’ to question and investigate uneven power relations. Along with contributions in this special issue, it is possible to point towards the potential to situate inquiry across thus-far ‘peripheral’ places and societal milieus to offer insights into the experiences and understandings of in/security which have been rendered invisible or marginal.
安全拓扑:后殖民与后社会主义场景下的安全探究
后殖民和后社会主义思想在安全的概念、范畴和关注点方面批判了批判安全研究(CSS)的欧洲中心主义取向。在这篇介绍性的文章中,我们讨论了张力中的一个概念——拓扑/场景——以深化后殖民和后社会主义学术之间的对话,以及科学和技术研究(STS)的见解。借鉴各种贡献,我们展示了拓扑/场景如何能够批判性地反思以STS为例的“网络化”、物质安全方法如何与基于后殖民和后社会主义理论和实践的批评进行富有成效的对话。因此,安全的拓扑结构和场景被作为一种方法来反映、询问和质疑安全的现有关系,以及不同时间和地点的不同材料、话语、组织和人的力量。我们试图超越“本地”和“全球”的标量等级,质疑和调查不平衡的权力关系。随着本期特刊的贡献,有可能指出在迄今为止的“外围”地区和社会环境中进行调查的潜力,以提供对已被视为不可见或边缘的安全的经验和理解的见解。
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