1st Edition
Critical Security and Chinese Politics The Anti-Falungong Campaign
By Juha A. Vuori
Copyright 2014
212 Pages
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Routledge
210 Pages
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Routledge
210 Pages
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Routledge
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This book examines how critical approaches to security developed in Europe can be used to investigate a Chinese security issue - the case of the Falungong.
The past few decades have produced a rich field of theoretical approaches to ‘security’ in Europe. In this book, the security-specific notions of securitization, the politics of insecurity, and emancipation are used as analytical approaches... Read more
Introduction 1. Methodology in Critical Security Scholarship 2. Critical Approaches to Security from Europe 3. The Chinese Political Order and the Falungong 4. Take One: The Construction of the Falungong as a Threat to National Security 5. Take Two: The Falungong and Practices of Governing Excessive Freedom 6. Take Three: The Falungong's Struggle for Recognition 7. Heuristic Effects and Dilemmas of Critical Theory Travel
Biography
Juha A. Vuori is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Contemporary History, University of Turku, Finland. He has a PhD in international relations.
