The aim of this short article is to present a programmatic call for the
chromatological investigation of security, and more generally to bring
the analysis of colour-use to International Relations and beyond.^[i]
Chromatology, the study of colours in relation to people, can comprise
multiple theoretical and methodological research programmes, and can add
to the emergent engagement with visualities in the field of security
studies (see Andersen et al., 2015a).
In this paper we present some of the different analytical rationales
behind mobilising a chromatology of security by presenting what colours
are and why we should analytically concentrate on colour-uses rather
than on what colours mean.