Annotation
The seminar starts in the 2nd week of the semester.
This course introduces contemporary issues in Critical Studies following the assumption that many contemporary security threats work through dispersed and decentered practices; this means that they are present in everyday practices and do not necessarily revolve around national security politics and institutions. This observation has methodological as well as normative consequences of how we need to approach the study of security. Questions of how to study how the everyday is shot through with security practices or how questions of justice and democracy are interlinked with security politics are thus central to this course.