Risk and the War on Terror

ISBN-13: 9780415443241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 280 str.

Louise Amoore

Opis

Offers an investigation of the specific modes of risk calculation in the war on terror. This book features a set of contributions which debate and analyse the empirical manifestations of risk in the war and their theoretical implications. It is intended for students and researchers of political science, legal studies, criminology and sociology.

Spis treści

Foreword: Rusing Risk Bill Maurer.  Introduction: Governing by Risk in the War on Terror Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede  Part 1: Risk, Precaution, Governance  1. Taming the Future: The Dispositif of Risk in the War on Terror Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster  2. Spatial Imaginaries: Economic Globalisation and the War on Terror Wendy Larner  3. The State of Preemption: Managing Terrorism Risk through Counter-Law Richard V. Ericson  Part 2: Crime, Deviance, Exception  4. Choosing our Wars, Transforming Governance: Cancer, Crime, and Terror Jonathan Simon  5. Risk, Preemption and Exception in the War on Terrorist Financing Marieke de Goede  6. Consulting, Culture, the Camp: On the Economies of the Exception Louise Amoore  Part 3: Biopolitics, Biometrics, Borders  7. Fast Capitalism/Slow Terror: Cushy Cosmopolitanism and its Extraordinary Others Matthew Sparke  8. Putting the Migration-Security Complex in its Place William Walters  9. Embodying Risk: Using Biometrics to Protect the Borders Charlotte Epstein  Part 4: Risk, Tactics, Resistances  10. Border Hacks: The Risks of Tactical Media Rita Raley  11. Subverting Discourses of Risk in the War on Terror Susan Bibler Coutin  12. Conclusion: Risk and Imagination in the War on Terror Mark B. Salter