State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9781138285439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 174 str.

William Walters

Opis

This book calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorizing power in liberal democracies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Secrecy, Security, and the Covert Imaginary  1 Deciphering Venona: Time, Space, and the Mobilization of Secrecy  2 On Orford Ness, An Island Full of National Secrets  3 The 9/11 Commission: Secrecy and Public Inquiry  4 Anti-Deportation: Migration and the Aesthetics of Secrecy  Conclusion

O autorze

William Walters teaches politics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he is the Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair (2019-22). He is the author of Unemployment and Government: Genealogies of the Social (2000) and Governmentality: Critical Encounters (Routledge 2012), co-author of Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality, and European Integration (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of Global Governmentality (Routledge, 2004) and Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion (forthcoming).