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Critical Security and Chinese Politics - The Anti-Falungong Campaign (Paperback)
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Critical Security and Chinese Politics - The Anti-Falungong Campaign (Paperback)
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
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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
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 group of qigong-practitioners who were presented as a
grave threat to society. The campaign had major impacts as new
security legislation was established and human rights organizations
reported severe mistreatment of practitioners. This book approaches
one empirical case with three approaches in order to transcend the
tendency to pit one approach against another. It shows how they
highlight different aspects in investigation, and how they can be
combined to gain more comprehensive insights, and thereby
invigorate renewed debate in the field. Furthermore, this is used
as a vehicle to discuss more general philosophical issues of
theory, development, and theory development and will assist
students to comprehend the effects research framework selection has
on a piece of research. Such discussions are necessary in order to
apply the frameworks in investigations that go beyond the
socio-political context they were originally developed in. This
book will be of interest to students of critical security studies,
Chinese politics, research methods and IR in general.
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