Dear all,
<br>please find below a Call for Papers that might be of interest for those
<br>working at the intersections of STS, anthropology and security studies.
<br>Deadline is January 13.
<br>
<br>Best,
<br>Nina
<br>___________________________________________________
<br>
<br>Researching security communities of practice: Ethical concerns,
<br>challenges and coping strategies
<br>
<br>European Workshops in International Studies, Brussels, 1-4 July 2020
<br>
<br>_Conveners: Nina Klimburg-Witjes (University of Vienna) & Matthias Leese
<br>(ETH Zurich)
<br>
<br>More recently, debates have proliferated about the ethical and
<br>methodological challenges that come with ethnographies of security and
<br>engagement with security professionals (de Goede et al 2019; Leese et al
<br>2019; Rappert & Gould 2017). Building on these debates, this workshop is
<br>interested in concrete obstacles and ethical conflicts that arise when
<br>doing research on and with “security communities of practice” (Adler
<br>2008; Bueger 2017) as well as the coping strategies that researchers
<br>have developed in their fieldwork.
<br>
<br>Challenges can appear in mundane and multiple forms. For instance, what
<br>about the informal dinner conversation that was never supposed to end up
<br>as research data, and yet has produced important insights into the
<br>politics behind security legislation? Can it be justified to approach
<br>industry representatives at a trade show under the false pretense of
<br>being a possible client for their surveillance system, so that they
<br>would elaborate in detail on the technical capacities of their product?
<br>Or what about deliberately using gender or class stereotypes that we, as
<br>researchers, might be opposed to but that still seem useful in talking
<br>to informants?
<br>
<br>We invite contributions that, building on field work experiences and
<br>drawing on critical security studies and STS, discuss the multiple ways
<br>in which how knowing about security and engaging with security milieus
<br>are co-productive of each other by focusing on one or more of the
<br>following themes:
<br>
<br>(1) investigating the contingent relations of researchers’ identities
<br>during various engagements with security professionals, the discourses
<br>they contribute to (unknowingly, strategically, or even by rejecting
<br>them), the representations of scientific ideals and requirements of
<br>confidentiality, as well as the different ways in which researchers are
<br>supported, mentored or hindered to conduct ethically sound but
<br>individually and politically challenging research in the field of
<br>security
<br>
<br>(2) focusing on ethical concerns in security studies, such as procedural
<br>ethics (e.g. how is informed consent dealt with as a requirement in
<br>social science?), situational ethics (e.g. the relationships between
<br>researchers and their informants; the situatedness of the researcher in
<br>a particular context that requires different forms of openness and
<br>engagement), or relational ethics (e.g. the responsibility of the
<br>researcher to decide which information to publish and to navigate the
<br>conflicting logics of valuations in science and security, for instance
<br>publication output and confidential information)
<br>
<br>(3) exploring the productive overlaps between IR/critical security
<br>studies and other fields, in particular STS and anthropology, and
<br>addressing the different ways and strategies of dealing with the messy
<br>and often secluded field of security during empirical work by exploring
<br>novel forms of collaboration and engagement with practitioners
<br>
<br>Please submit your abstract of max. 250 words here:
<br>https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2020/abstract-submission/ and select
<br>“Workshop U”
<br>
<br>The deadline for submissions is 13 January 2020
<br>
<br>Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Nina
<br>Klimburg-Witjes (nina.witjes@univie.ac.at) and Matthias Leese
<br>(matthias.leese@sipo.gess.ethz.ch
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