ABSTRACT
That ‘life is complicated’ is something that social science sometimes neglects to take seriously as a theoretical statement. The complexity of social life is so obvious as to appear almost not worth noting but is actually extremely important. Haunting includes a concern with a range of different binaries: absence and presence silence and scream life and death. Additionally, spectralities scholars point to the liminal spaces in between these two categories. The framework of Haunting is integral to the exploration of the gendered dynamics of security studies. The addition of queer logic(s) makes it possible to draw the concerns of Haunting into closer alignment with the thinking of feminist scholarship. The symbolic importance of killing to constructions of masculinity is confused by the lack of risk that the crews face as they undertake lethal missions.
