ABSTRACT
Approaching security as narrative changes what one sees and what security means. A key component of the narrative approach-and the larger methodological choices advocated here-is that the differences among stories and storytellers, which characterize personal narratives, are explicitly acknowledged, rather than ironed out as they are in traditional social science approaches. What is more, they are interrogated for what they can tell us about the storytellers’ conflicts, the multiple strategies that might be employed to address them, and the multiplicity of perspectives that exist in relation to them. Narratives are always contextual; securities are likewise.
