Security studies needs to go beyond its chromophobia (its avoidance of colour) and see how colour-use operates in the enactment and (re-)appropriation of security.
Dr. Higate reflects on military masculinities, developments in the private military security industry, and the role of UN peacekeepers in shaping perceptions of security.
This brief exploration highlights the extent to which emotions have a social, cultural and political dimension that is pervasive at the international level.
We need not be grateful for the ‘protection’ of killer robots; we may instead mimic Lysistrata and humanize the very structure of protection in the 21st century.
Security studies doesn’t engage with vernacular, or everyday, experiences of security. As such, its authority to discuss contemporary sources of insecurity is greatly reduced.
Gaining an understanding of how security operates compels the researcher to question concepts of subjective and objective and replace them with the fact of inter-subjectivity.
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