Mark B. Salter is Professor in the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the author/editor of eight books, including Making Things International 1 and 2 (2015 and 2016). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Security Dialogue.

Can E. Mutlu is Associate Professor of Global Politics at Acadia University in Wolfville, NS, Canada. His research interests include borders, migration, technology, and security. He is the co-editor of Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility (with Benjamin J. Muller).

Philippe M. Frowd is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on the governance of irregular migration and border control in the Sahel region of West Africa. He is the author of Security at the Borders (2018).

1. Introduction PART I: RESEARCH DESIGN2. Research Design 3. Wondering as Research Attitude 4. Do You Have What It Takes? Accounting for Emotional and Material Capacities 5. Attuning to 'Mess': Not Presuming to Know Sanctuary 6. Engaging Collaborative Writing Critically 7. Accessing the 'Field' of Terrorism Studies PART II: ETHNOGRAPHY8. Ethnography 9. Travelling with Ethnography 10. Reflexive Inquiry 11. Listening to Migrant Stories: Considerations on Voice 12. Learning by Feeling: Emotional Intelligence and Fieldwork 13. Doing Sensitive Research: Fieldwork Ethics and Methodologies 14. 'China is the Safest Country in the World!': Translation, Travel, and the Problem of Fit' 15. Methods that Mirror Migration: Ethics and Entanglement En Route 16. Researching Security Decisions at the Border (or Serendipity and Secret Places) 17. 'Dangerous' Fieldwork PART III: PRACTICES 18. Practices 19. The Practice of Writing 20. Researching Anti-Deportation: Socialization as Method 21. Expertise in the Aviation Security Field 22. Mapping Urban Security Practices 23. Following Turkish Border Practices PART IV: DISCOURSE 24. Discourse 25. Archives 26. Legislative Practices 27. Problems, Tools, and Creativity: A Pragmatist Approach to Emotion and Security 28. Keeping Secrets: Freedom of Information Requests and Critical Security Studies 29. Understanding Discourses of Arctic In/Security PART V: CORPOREAL30. The Corporeal 31. Theorizing the Body in IR 32. Reading the Maternal Body as Political Event 33. Sonic Encounters in Critical Security Studies: Reflections from Ethnographic Fieldwork in Morocco 34. Thinking Like a Microbe PART VI: MATERIALITY35. Materiality 36. Infrastructure 37. The F-35 38. Complicating Risk, Home and the Field: Security Research in Spaces of Control 39. Unlearning Research Methods: Stories of Attunement and Failure 40. Security Technologies and Criticality 41. Materiality and the Production of Objects PART VII: CONCLUSION42. Emerging Trends