ABSTRACT
Feminist security scholars have explored the interaction between gender and military technologies, but to date their theorising has tended to view these technologies as either masculinising or feminising. This chapter discusses Haunting within the ‘spectral (re)turn’ exploring the different ways in which Haunting and its component of the ghost have been deployed. It argues that complexity and nuance are foregrounded by Haunting through four core themes: complex personhood, in/(hyper)visibility, disturbed temporality, and power. The chapter outlines the ghost hunt, the methodology of Haunting. The ghost hunt provides a means of exploring how to take seriously the data which does not ‘fit’ and how to engage with ‘sensuous’ and ‘deviant’ knowledges. Haunting is part of the wider ‘spectral (re)turn’ in social science and has been applied to a wide range of subject areas including sociology, International Relations, videography, art, cartography, literature, history, city planning and geography.
