Cultures of (In)Security in Comparison
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas
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Carlos Garrido Castellano
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas
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Susana S. Martins
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Instituto de História da Arte
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Cultures of (In)Security in Comparison: From Comparative Literature to Critical Approaches to Security Studies
Dedalus 19 (2015), pp. 11-33. Download PDF
Abstract
In this article, the authors attempt to show the relevance and roles of critical security studies in relation to the field of Comparative Studies taking into consideration new developments in this field and the need for critical and self-conscious approaches to national, international and transnational relations within comparative literature (lato sensu). Secondly, it is suggested that renewed examinations of the notion of hospitality are fundamental to shape new security approaches within Comparative Studies. The article considers the need for practical and updated revisions of ‘hospitality,’ attentive to heterogeneous (regional, national, international and transnational) articulations. Thirdly, the authors offer an overview of the articles collected in the themed cluster, in order to highlight how they can be understood within the debates about security in comparison. The different contributions, ranging from humanities to social sciences, provide a useful and broad disciplinary convergence that also demonstrates how they forge new, but necessarily ‘insecure,’ paths within comparative studies.