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      The 'western-centrism' of security studies: 'blind spot' or constitutive practice?

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      Author
      Bilgin, P.
      Date
      2010-12
      Source Title
      Security Dialogue
      Print ISSN
      0967-0106
      Publisher
      Sage Publications Ltd.
      Volume
      41
      Issue
      6
      Pages
      615 - 622
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Unlike some other staples of security studies that do not even register the issue, Buzan & Hansen's (2009) The Evolution of International Security Studies unambiguously identifies 'Western-centrism' as a problem. This article seeks to make the point, however, that treating heretofore-understudied insecurities (such as those experienced in the non-West) as a 'blind spot' of the discipline may prevent us from fully recognizing the ways in which such 'historical absences' have been constitutive of security both in theory and in practice. Put differently, the discipline's 'Western-centric' character is no mere challenge for students of security studies. The 'historical absence' from security studies of non-Western insecurities and approaches has been a 'constitutive practice' that has shaped (and continues to shape) both the discipline and subjects and objects of security in different parts of the world.
      Keywords
      Eurocentrism
      Insecurity
      Postcolonial
      Security studies
      Third world
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22093
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010610388208
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