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This article traces the experience of four arts educators as they consider ‘self as subject-matter’ through living inquiry. Anchored in arts-based approaches, storying the self four ways offers both an individual perspective and an a/r/tographic métissage of becoming through the weaving of narratives that derive from sociocultural and historical contexts. The practice of narrative as research considers the following questions: how does the presentation/communication component of life writing colour a narrative? What common and potentially universal experiences occur within life writing research? Through the collaborative exchange of four narratives, a fifth emerges: in response to the creative journey of others, and in documenting our entanglements with them, we open spaces. Illustrating how the introspective and extrospective interact with the visual or performative as a vehicle for revealing the self, this article posits that the self-in-relation to theory and practice becomes a way of knowing that broadens educational discourse among artists/researchers/teachers.

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Political Studies Review ◽

10.1111/j.1478-9302.2010.00221.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Emilian Kavalski

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

National Security ◽

Disease Ecology ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Washington Dc ◽

Brookings Institution ◽

Oxford University ◽

Policy Theory ◽

The Cold War

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Private active cyber defense and (international) cyber security—pushing the line?

Journal of Cybersecurity ◽

10.1093/cybsec/tyab010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dennis Broeders

Keyword(s):

Cyber Security ◽

International Security ◽

Political Legitimacy ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Washington Dc ◽

Private Governance ◽

External Effects ◽

Domestic Security ◽

Political Problem ◽

American Law

Abstract Private sector Active Cyber Defence (ACD) lies on the intersection of domestic security and international security and is a recurring subject, often under the more provocative flag of ‘hack back’, in the American debate about cyber security. This article looks at the theory and practice of private cyber security provision and analyses in more detail a number of recent reports and publications on ACD by Washington DC based commissions and think tanks. Many of these propose legalizing forms of active cyber defence, in which private cyber security companies would be allowed to operate beyond their own, or their clients’ networks, and push beyond American law as it currently stands. Generally, public-private governance solutions for security problems have to manage a balance between (i) questions of capacity and assigning responsibilities, (ii) the political legitimacy of public–private security solutions and (iii) the mitigation of their external effects. The case of private active cyber defence reveals a strong emphasis on addressing the domestic security (and political) problem, while failing to convincingly address the international security problems. The proposals aim to create a legitimate market for active cyber defence, anchored to the state through regulation and certification as a way to balance capacity, responsibilities and domestic political legitimacy. A major problem is that even though these reports anticipate international repercussions and political pushback, against what is likely be received internationally as an escalatory and provocative policy, they offer little to mitigate it.

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