Critical Approaches to Security

The student is able to identify a wide range of issues discussed in critical approaches to peace and conflict research as well as to security studies. They include digital and visual mass surveillance practices, new patterns of political conflict fueled by digital media, the role of materiality, technology, and visuality in the understanding of peace and conflict. The student can also analyze the impact of material, technological and visual environments on issues and problems of peace, conflict and security.

Electronic exam (5 ECTS):

Choose 5 ects from the following literature:

People & Vaughan-Williams, Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, 3rd edition, Routledge 2021 (3 ects)
AND

Vuori & Saugmann, Visual Security Studies. Routledge 2018 (2 ects)

OR

Möller, Peace Photography: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan 2019 (2 ects)