Remaining ‘in-between’ the divides? Conceptual, methodological, and ethical political dilemmas of engaged research in Critical Military Studies

IF 1.8 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Critical Studies on Security Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI:10.1080/21624887.2023.2194503
Rachel Massey, Thom Tyerman
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ABSTRACT Critical Military Studies (CMS) has emerged as an important subdiscipline in international security studies and an interdisciplinary field in its own right. In this article, we offer a close reading of foundational CMS literature to reveal its distinct approach to the critical study of military power. We argue this foundational literature is characterised by a commitment to a series of ‘in-between’ and 'engaged' positions on conceptual binaries between civilian and military spheres, questions of methodological proximity to or distance from military actors, and ethical political support for or opposition to militarism. While CMS makes important contributions to analyses of military power and security, we argue it too often re-centres white western male military subjects and agendas while marginalising antimilitarism. In this way, we argue, it reproduces a form of epistemic and ‘methodological whiteness’ that limits its potential to offer a sustained critique.
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仍然处于分歧之间?参与批判性军事研究的概念、方法和伦理政治困境
摘要批判性军事研究是国际安全研究的一个重要分支学科,也是一个跨学科的研究领域。在这篇文章中,我们仔细阅读了CMS的基础文献,以揭示其对军事力量批判性研究的独特方法。我们认为,这一基础文献的特点是致力于在民事和军事领域之间的概念二元关系上采取一系列“中间”和“参与”的立场,在方法上接近或远离军事行为者的问题,以及对军国主义的伦理政治支持或反对。虽然CMS对军事力量和安全的分析做出了重要贡献,但我们认为,它经常将西方白人男性军事主题和议程重新置于中心,同时将反军事主义边缘化。我们认为,通过这种方式,它再现了一种认识论和“方法论白人”的形式,这限制了它提供持续批评的潜力。
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