Imagining Security

ISBN-13: 9781843920748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str.

Jennifer (Australian National University) Wood; Clifford (Australian National University) Shearing

Opis

Focuses on the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private, and non-governmental sectors. The first five chapters of this book explore what has happened to the governance of s

Spis treści

Introduction.  Imagining security.  Imagining governance.  Governance through force.  Governing through enrolment  1. From state to nodal governance.  Introduction.  Transformations in state governance.  Governing through others: enrolment and alignment.  Private governments.  Nodal governance.  Conclusion  2. Community security and local governance: waves in public policing.  Introduction.  The place of the police.  Waves in public policing.  Policing as community-based.  Policing as solving problems.  The influence of neo-liberalism.  Policing as restorative justice.  Policing as fixing broken windows.  Policing as intelligence work.  Policing as reassurance.  Conclusion  3. Human security and global governance.  Introduction.  Imagining human security.  Threats to human security.  Strategies of human security governance.  Fighting crime and terror.  Protecting people in zones of conflict.  Protecting human rights.  Building peace.  Developing communities and societies.  The state security/human security nexus.  Conclusion  4. Responding to governance deficits.  Introduction.  Methods of power.  Concentrate power nodally and use it to steer governance.  Recognize and use all your power resources.  Focus on nodes where one can be creative and assertive.  Concentrate knowledge at nodes.  Locate resources at nodes.  Promote deliberative processes within nodes.  Democracy in nodal governance.  Conclusion  5. The governance of governance.  Introduction.  Hybridity in state governance: the case of public policing.  Legal accountability.  Political accountability.  The new regulatory state or regulatory capitalism.  Thinking like a business.  Hybridity in decentred governance: private policing and beyond.  Nodal governance for the future.  Conclusion.  Explanatory themes.  Normative themes.  Legislation Legal cases