Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 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; References; Index
Summary
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 to investigate the anti-Falungong campaign in the People's Republic of China. This campaign, launched in 1999, was the largest security-related propaganda campaign since 1989 and was directed against a g
