The politics of possibility : risk and security beyond probability /

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Dissects the post 9/11 symbiosis between the state and private security firms, and its basis: the conviction that uncertainties-devastation by terrorist attack, financial market collapse-must be discerned and preempted, however unlikely they may be.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amoore, Louise (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
International relations > Risk assessment.
National security > Technological innovations.
Terrorism > Prevention > Technological innovations.
Relations internationales > Évaluation du risque.
Terrorisme > Prévention > Innovations.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Internationella relationer > säkerhetsaspekter.
Säkerhetspolitik.
Tekniska innovationer.
Terrorismbekämpning.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On authority : probabilities for a world of possibility
  • On risk : securing uncertain futures
  • On the line : life signatures and the writing of the border
  • On location : reconciling security and mobility
  • On aesthetics : security's objects and the form of data
  • On a potential politics.

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