Rhetoric of InSecurity: The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780367463076 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 144 str.

Victoria Baines

Opis

This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years. It will be essential to legal and policy practitioners, students of Law, Politics, Media, and Classics, and all those interested in employing critical thinking.

O autorze

Victoria Baines is Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University’s School of Computing. She has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and lectured at Stanford University. Trained as a Classicist with a specialism in rhetoric in Roman literature, she worked as a law enforcement intelligence analyst and a technology company executive before returning to research. Her research touches on public policy, threat representation, surveillance, cyberspace and internet governance, and futures methods. She regularly contributes to media coverage on the misuse of social and emerging technologies.