CIAO DATE: 9/07
Culture and Conflict
No. 54 - Summer 2004
Critical Approaches To Security: Canadian Perspectives
In the context of the post 9/11 discourses on the necessity and inevitability of the “war on terror”, it is urgent to develop critical approaches to the one-way option for which the field of security is limited to its exclusively military dimension. Consequently, this issue of Cultures & Conflits suggests opening up security studies to new perspectives, such as that of environment or gender studies. Positioning themselves in the field of international relations, the authors in this issue focus on current research as well as on a wide array of new perspectives. This issue is the result of debates transcending pre-established or imposed boundaries. It was prepared by the team of Professor Alex Macleod from the University of Montreal (UQAM) and is the outcome of intense transatlantic exchanges. It represents a contribution to the theoretical debates on the role, the normative claim, the place and the relevance of classical International Relational approaches, through a constructivist critique and a neo-gramscian approach.
Introduction: a Canadian-French Collaboration
Editorial BoardIntroduction : Critical Approaches to Security
Alex MacleodSecurity Studies : From Mainstrean Constructivism to Critical Constructivism
Alex MacleodOutline of the Contributions of the Neo-Gramscians and Critical Theories to the Reflexive Turn in Security Theories
Frédérick Guillaume DufourRelations between the “Political” and the “Economic” in the discourses and the Practices of the “War against Terrorism”
Thierry Lapointe et Isabelle MassonReconsidering the Link between Environmental Degradation and Conflict : Environmental Insecurity as a Tool for Mobilization
Evelyne DufaultA Sexuality/Security Dilemma : American Identity Politics Toward the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Africa
Anne-Marie D’AoustHORS-THEMES: The Production of Strategic Knowledge and Representations
Christophe Wasinski