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                Dear all,

please find below a Call for Papers that might be of interest for those 

working at the intersections of STS, anthropology and security studies. 

Deadline is January 13.



Best,

Nina

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Researching security communities of practice: Ethical concerns,

challenges and coping strategies



European Workshops in International Studies, Brussels, 1-4 July 2020



_Conveners: Nina Klimburg-Witjes (University of Vienna) & Matthias Leese

(ETH Zurich)



More recently, debates have proliferated about the ethical and

methodological challenges that come with ethnographies of security and

engagement with security professionals (de Goede et al 2019; Leese et al

2019; Rappert & Gould 2017). Building on these debates, this workshop is

interested in concrete obstacles and ethical conflicts that arise when

doing research on and with “security communities of practice” (Adler

2008; Bueger 2017) as well as the coping strategies that researchers

have developed in their fieldwork.



Challenges can appear in mundane and multiple forms. For instance, what

about the informal dinner conversation that was never supposed to end up

as research data, and yet has produced important insights into the

politics behind security legislation? Can it be justified to approach

industry representatives at a trade show under the false pretense of

being a possible client for their surveillance system, so that they

would elaborate in detail on the technical capacities of their product?

Or what about deliberately using gender or class stereotypes that we, as

researchers, might be opposed to but that still seem useful in talking

to informants?



We invite contributions that, building on field work experiences and

drawing on critical security studies and STS, discuss the multiple ways

in which how knowing about security and engaging with security milieus

are co-productive of each other by focusing on one or more of the

following themes:



(1) investigating the contingent relations of researchers’ identities

during various engagements with security professionals, the discourses

they contribute to (unknowingly, strategically, or even by rejecting

them), the representations of scientific ideals and requirements of

confidentiality, as well as the different ways in which researchers are

supported, mentored or hindered to conduct ethically sound but

individually and politically challenging research in the field of

security



(2) focusing on ethical concerns in security studies, such as procedural

ethics (e.g. how is informed consent dealt with as a requirement in

social science?), situational ethics (e.g. the relationships between

researchers and their informants; the situatedness of the researcher in

a particular context that requires different forms of openness and

engagement), or relational ethics (e.g. the responsibility of the

researcher to decide which information to publish and to navigate the

conflicting logics of valuations in science and security, for instance

publication output and confidential information)



(3) exploring the productive overlaps between IR/critical security

studies and other fields, in particular STS and anthropology, and

addressing the different ways and strategies of dealing with the messy

and often secluded field of security during empirical work by exploring

novel forms of collaboration and engagement with practitioners



Please submit your abstract of max. 250 words here:

https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2020/abstract-submission/ and select

“Workshop U”



The deadline for submissions is 13 January 2020



Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Nina

Klimburg-Witjes (nina.witjes@univie.ac.at) and Matthias Leese

(matthias.leese@sipo.gess.ethz.ch

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