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Doing and mediating critique: An invitation to practice companionship

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Austin, Jonathan Luke Bellanova, Rocco [USL-B, University of Amsterdam] Kaufmann, Mareile

What does it mean to study security from a critical perspective? This question continues to haunt critical security studies. Conversations about normative stances, political engagement, and the role of critique are mainstays of the discipline. This article argues that these conversations tend to revolve around a too disembodied image of research, where the everyday practice of researchers is sidelined. But researchers do do research: they work materially, socially, and cognitively. They mediate between various feedback loops or fields of critique. In doing so, they actively build and exercise critique. Recognizing that fact, this article resists growing suggestions to abandon critique by, first, returning to the practice of critique through the notion of companionship. This permits us to reinvigorate our attention to the objects, persons, and phenomena through which critique gains inspiration and purpose, and that literally accompany our relationship to critique. Second, we explore what happens when our companions disagree, when critique faces controversies and (a) symmetries. Here, we support research designs of tracing credibility and establishing symmetries in order to move away from critique as denouncing positions we disagree with. Third, we discuss the relation between companionship, critique, reflexivity, and style. Here, the rhetorical practices of critical inquiry are laid out, and possibilities for its articulation in different and less silencing voices are proposed.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2019
Language Anglais
Journal information "Security Dialogue" - Vol. 50, no.1, p. 3-19 (2019)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher SAGE Publications
issn 0967-0106
e-issn 1460-3640
Publication status Publié
Affiliations USL-B - Institut d'études européennes (IEE)
USL-B - Centre de recherches en science politique (CReSPo)
UCL - SSH/IRIS-L/IEE - Institut d'études européennes
UCL - SSH/IRIS-L/CRSP - Centre de recherche en science politique
Keywords Critique ; International Relations ; STS ; Practice Theory ; Critical Security Studies
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Bibliographic reference Austin, Jonathan Luke ; Bellanova, Rocco ; Kaufmann, Mareile. Doing and mediating critique: An invitation to practice companionship. In: Security Dialogue, Vol. 50, no.1, p. 3-19 (2019)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.3/221361