Research Methods in Critical Security Studies, 2nd Edition

6 Engaging collaborative writing critically

Miguel de Larrinaga and Marc G. Doucet

DOI: 10.4324/9781003108016-7

Introduction

Collaborative writing has been an important part of academic research yet has been relatively unexplored (at least in our discipline) as a form of academic activity in and of itself. Since the final product is virtually indistinguishable from single authored work, the actual process of collaboration might appear as merely the practical matter of divvying up the work among authors and thus a technical issue that does not merit any particular analysis or examination. Indeed, when one thinks of collaboration in an academic setting the standard models most often entail arrangements in which some form of a division of labour ...