In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote:"" An important new movement is sweeping
through the western world.... The'mad,'the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums …

Stagnating political participation, the growth of delegated agencies and the prevalence of
rationalistic-technocratic discourse all represent interlinking aspects of what can been …

Our core motivation behind this project was a desire to champion clear research design and
rigorous method in critical security studies. As a reflexive field, engaging with security …

This article investigates the limits of the concept of militarization and proposes an alternative
concept: martial politics. It argues that the concept of militarization falsely presumes a …

This article argues that while Foucauldian security studies (FSS) scholarship on the
biopolitics of security and liberal war has not ignored racism, these works largely replicate …

" Combining a rich and varied set of theoretical insights with a subtle analysis of the politics
of American foreign policy, Defacing Power marks an important contribution toward …

Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role
of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has …

This article makes the case for a new field in International Relations (IR): the Global Politics
of Medicine. It argues that significant avenues of research can be opened up by focusing on …

This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is necessarily a phenomenon
located at the level of the state, and that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or …

This article traces the rise of military psychological resilience training, focusing on the US
Army's Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program, which seeks to assess and …