Louise Amoore

The Politics of Possibility

Risk and Security Beyond Probability

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Produktbeschreibung

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University in Durham, England. She is the author of Globalization Contested: An International Political Economy of Work, editor of The Global Resistance Reader, and a coeditor of Risk and the War on Terror.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355601
• ISBN-10: 0822355604
• Artikelnr.: 38135789

Autorenporträt

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University in Durham, England. She is the author of Globalization Contested: An International Political Economy of Work, editor of The Global Resistance Reader, and a coeditor of Risk and the War on Terror.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. On the Politics of Possibility 1
Part I. Techniques
1. On Authority: Probabilities for a World of Possibility 29
2. On Risk: Securing Uncertain Futures 55
Part II. Spaces
3. On the Line: Life Signatures and the Writing of the Border 79
4. On Location: Reconciling Security and Mobility 105
Part III. Effects
5. On Aesthetics: Security's Objects and the Form of Data 129
6. On a Potential Politics: Toward an Ethics of the Unanticipated 155
Notes 177
Bibliography 203
Index 217