Pitfalls of Emancipation and Discourses of Security: Reflections on Canada’s ‘Security With a Human Face’  

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Neufeld, Mark

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Relations vol. 18 no. 1 (Mar. 2004), page 109–123.
Topik: Canadian foreign policy; critical approach; security; security discourse.
Fulltext: 109.IR18.1.pdf (89.32KB)

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The call to develop self-consciously critical approaches to security stands as one of the more hopeful intellectual developments in recent years. It is argued that a critical – and hence, emancipatory – strategy is one which focuses on the more ‘empirical’ question of how security issues are framed in political discourse. Here the emphasis is on exploring how different conceptions of security – both traditional and expanded – find their way into public debates; how specific values are made socially concrete in this process, and how people both act and are acted upon in the process of history unfolding. The merits of this approach are illustrated by examining a concrete case: the evolution of security discourse in Canada in the latter half of the 20th century, and the function of that discourse in terms of changing forms of state and world order.

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