This new book chapter, entitled “Security technologies and criticality“, engages the ambiguous relations between a critical research attitude and the complex socio-technical formations that we tend to encounter in the field. Through the use of the concept of “critical intimacy”, the chapter argues that there is a middle ground between the extreme positions of “proximity” and “distance” in field research.
The chapter is part of the second edition of “Research methods in critical security studies”, edited by Mark Salter, Philippe Frowd, and Can Mutlu.
Matthias Leese 