Louise Amoore / Marieke De Goede (eds.)

Risk and the War on Terror

Herausgeber: Amoore, Louise; De Goede, Marieke

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Written by leading scholars in the field, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical investigation of the specific modes of risk calculation that are emerging in the so-called war on terror.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780415443241
• ISBN-10: 0415443245
• Artikelnr.: 23408388

Autorenporträt

Louise Amoore is Lecturer in Political Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. Marieke de Goede is Senior Lecturer at the Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

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