Practicing criticism is a matter of making facile gestures difficult--Michel Foucault
chasing dragons critically
explores issues that traverse the continuum of security, politics, and
culture. Our audience is anyone who is growing tired of traditional
social commentary and the limited vision of political possibility that
it forwards. The goal is to at least give our readership pause to think about
things differently.
About kyle grayson
Kyle Grayson is a
Lecturer in International Politics in the School of
Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University UK where he
has taught modules in international relations, geopolitics, and
research methods. He is a co-editor of a new book series (along with
Matt Davies, Simon Philpott,
Christina Rowley and Jutta Weldes) on popular
culture and world politics with Lexington Books.
Previously, he was a
post-doctoral fellow
of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security and Associate Director of the York Center for International and Security Studies. His first book,
Chasing
Dragons: Security, Identity, and Illicit Drugs in Canada, was published
by the University of Toronto Press in 2008. Other work on the theory and practice of human security has previously
appeared in the academic journals Canadian Foreign Policy, Security Dialogue, International
Journal, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Forthcoming
work on international relations theory, the world politics/popular
culture continuum, and human security will be appearing in the Review of International Studies, Politics,
and International Politics.
There will also be two book chapters appearing in edited collections
with University of
Toronto Press and Oxford University Press Canada. These explore the history of
Canadian illicit drugs policy and critical perspectives on Canadian
foreign policy respectively.
His current research analyzes how assassination and targeted killing have
been presented as a problem in the legal, strategic, and political
discourses
that make-up counter-terrorism policy. This is scheduled to be
published with Hurst and Co. Publishing Ltd. sometime in 2011.
He can be reached via kg@chasingdragons.org
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