This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events â such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics â which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage.
This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events â such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics â which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage.
Claudia Aradau is Lecturer in International Studies and Research Director of the Securities Programme, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University. She is the author of Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics out of Security. Rens van Munster is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). He is the author of Securitizing Immigration: The Politics of Risk in the EU.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Securing Catastrophic Futures 3. Conjectures of Catastrophe: 'The Next Terrorist Attack' 4. Economies of Catastrophe 5. Imagining Catastrophes 6. Aesthetics of Catastrophe 7. Catastrophe, Exception, Event 8. Conclusion
