Security scholars have traditionally viewed emergency as a state of exception that triggers a struggle for survival, justifying the breaking of rules and excesses of state power. While there have been attempts to decouple security from its survivalist logic, emergency has remained an analytical blind spot in security studies. The dominance of an elite-centric, exceptionalist paradigm in the study of emergency has foreclosed the possibility of alternative conceptions of emergency and neglected the voices of structurally disempowered agents. This paper advances a vernacular contextual research agenda that is sensitive to the empirical diversity of emergency meanings and practices while foregrounding emergency claims made by non-elite actors. Challenging the idea of emergency as a form of “anti-politics,” the paper contends that emergency should be understood as an intrinsic part of politics. It then recovers an alternative, “emancipatory” conception of emergency as an extraordinary moment of spontaneous beginnings that can activate the collective agency of marginalized actors. The final section establishes conceptual foundations for actor-centered, grounded empirical research into emergency politics and suggests avenues for future research. Contextualizing emergency and attuning to the voices and experiences of everyday actors are crucial to remove the key variable that ties security to the logic of survival and exception.

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紧急情况：白话语境方法

安全学者传统上将紧急状态视为引发生存斗争的一种例外状态，为打破规则和滥用国家权力辩护。尽管有人试图将安全与其生存逻辑脱钩，但紧急情况仍然是安全研究中的一个分析盲点。以精英为中心的例外主义范式在紧急情况研究中的主导地位已经排除了替代紧急情况概念的可能性，并且忽视了结构上被剥夺权力的代理人的声音。本文提出了一种本土语境研究议程，该议程对紧急情况意义和实践的经验多样性敏感，同时突出非精英行为者提出的紧急情况声明。挑战紧急状态作为一种“反政治、”该论文认为，紧急情况应被理解为政治的内在组成部分。然后，它恢复了另一种“解放”的紧急状态概念，即自发开始的非凡时刻，可以激活边缘化行为者的集体代理。最后一部分为以行动者为中心、扎根的紧急政治实证研究建立了概念基础，并为未来的研究提出了建议。将紧急情况情境化并适应日常参与者的声音和经验对于消除将安全与生存和例外逻辑联系起来的关键变量至关重要。紧急情况的“解放”概念是自发开始的非凡时刻，可以激活边缘化行为者的集体机构。最后一部分为以行动者为中心、扎根的紧急政治实证研究建立了概念基础，并为未来的研究提出了建议。将紧急情况情境化并适应日常参与者的声音和经验对于消除将安全与生存和例外逻辑联系起来的关键变量至关重要。紧急情况的“解放”概念是自发开始的非凡时刻，可以激活边缘化行为者的集体机构。最后一部分为以行动者为中心、扎根的紧急政治实证研究建立了概念基础，并为未来的研究提出了建议。将紧急情况情境化并适应日常参与者的声音和经验对于消除将安全与生存和例外逻辑联系起来的关键变量至关重要。