Research Methods in Critical Security Studies, 2nd Edition

30 The corporeal

Can E. Mutlu and Philippe M. Frowd

DOI: 10.4324/9781003108016-35

Introduction

This chapter focuses on questions of method, research design, and case selection in corporeal research within critical security studies. Corporeal, as an umbrella term, covers research that deals with affect, emotions, and the somatic. Corporeal research is relatively new to critical security studies; its origins are elsewhere in cultural theory, gender studies, geography, and psychology.

Starting with geography (Thrift 2004), but also in social and political theory (Connolly 2002; Massumi 1995, 2002, 2005), there has been an “affective turn” (Clough 2007) that introduced an affect and emotion-attuned methodology (Gregg et al. 2010) to studying ...