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Security Unbound - Enacting Democratic Limits (Paperback)
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Security Unbound - Enacting Democratic Limits (Paperback)
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
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Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of
life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security
Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our
neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments
formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy.
Security is not in the first instance a right or value but a
practice that challenges democratic institutions and actions. We
are familiar with emergency policies in the name of national
security challenging parliamentary processes, the space for
political dissent, and fundamental rights. Yet, security practice
and technology pervade society heavily in very mundane ways without
raising national security crises, in particular through
surveillance technology and the management of risks and
uncertainties in many areas of life. These more diffuse security
practices create societies in which suspicion becomes a default way
of relating and governing relations, ranging from neighbourhood
relations over financial transactions to cross border mobility.
Security Unbound demonstrates that governing through suspicion
poses serious challenges to democratic practice. Some of these
challenges are familiar, such as the erosion of the right to
privacy; others are less so, such as the post-human challenge to
citizenship. Security unbound provokes us to see that the
democratic political stake today is not our security but preventing
insecurity from becoming the organising principle of political and
social life.
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