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Risk and the War on Terror (Hardcover, New)
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Risk and the War on Terror (Hardcover, New)
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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. Risk and the War on Terror offers an
interdisciplinary set of contributions which debate and analyze
both the empirical manifestations of risk in the War on Terror and
their theoretical implications. From border controls and biometrics
to financial targeting and policing practice, the imperative to
deploy public and private data in order to 'connect the dots' of
terrorism risk raises important questions for social scientists and
practitioners alike. How are risk technologies redeployed from
commercial, environmental and policing domains to the domain of the
War on Terror? How can the invocation of risk in the War on Terror
be understood conceptually? Do these moves embody transformations
from sovereignty to governmentality; from discipline to risk; from
geopolitics to biopolitics? What are the implications of such moves
for the populations that come to be designated as 'risky' or 'at
risk'? Where are the gaps, ambiguities and potential resistances to
these practices? In contrast with previous historical moments of
risk measurement, governing by risk in the War on Terror has taken
on a distinctive orientation to an uncertain future. This book will
be of strong interest to students and researchers of international
studies, political science, geography, legal studies, criminology
and sociology.
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