1 Wondering as research attitude Luis Lobo‐Guerrero Royal Holloway, University of London This chapter has been published as: Lobo-Guerrero, Luis, ‘Wondering as research attitude’, in Mark B. Salter and Can E. Mutlu (eds) (2012) Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, London: Routledge. Please cite from that source Abstract To ‘wonder’ is to expose oneself to the surprise, the unexpected, the unanticipated and the unthought‐of. While fostering the curiosity of the researcher, wondering as a research attitude opens up the possibility of encountering a new experience of knowing (power). It is an attitude that leads one to explore that which has either not been grasped by the encoded‐attention of scholars, which has escaped the interest of paradigm‐driven researchers, or which has been dismissed as unimportant by urgent/useful research agendas. This chapter offers a provocation for ‘wondering’ as an ethos that allows ‘the surprise’ to disrupt the rational experience of knowing (security).