Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.