Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
7513BICIRP-JAN-PAR
Aims
- To develop students’ understanding of non-traditional security issues.
- To develop students’ understanding of contemporary issues in the area of security.
- To develop students’ theoretical and conceptual understanding of the contested meanings of security.
- To develop students’ understanding of how critical International Relations theory applies to global security.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically engage with relevant social and political scientific literatures on security issues
2.
Operationalise lenses from critical security studies to assess contemporary contestations of ‘security’
3.
Critically evaluate the political and social implications of security politics.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
- Introduction: Critical Security Studies and Security as a Contested Concept
- Securitization theory
- Security and Gender
- Security and Race
- Humanitarian intervention
- Contemporary Counter-Terrorism Practices
- Migration and security
- Security in an age of pandemics and bioterrorism
- Post-human security
- Recap: How ‘critical’ is critical security studies?
Module Overview:
Through an exploration of key contemporary issues including gender, race, health security, nuclearization, migration and terrorism, this module will provide a set of key concepts and resources to help students develop an in-depth understanding of the modern security environment through the lens of Critical Security Studies. As such, this module will provide students with the necessary theoretical tools to understand how ‘security’ opens up wider questions of power, inequality, war, and peace internationally. In particular, this module will be important for students who are keen on pursuing a career within policy-making, research and industries concerned with security, development and peace-building.
Through an exploration of key contemporary issues including gender, race, health security, nuclearization, migration and terrorism, this module will provide a set of key concepts and resources to help students develop an in-depth understanding of the modern security environment through the lens of Critical Security Studies. As such, this module will provide students with the necessary theoretical tools to understand how ‘security’ opens up wider questions of power, inequality, war, and peace internationally. In particular, this module will be important for students who are keen on pursuing a career within policy-making, research and industries concerned with security, development and peace-building.