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Speculative Security - The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies (Paperback)
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Speculative Security - The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies (Paperback)
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Since the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, finance and
security have become joined in new ways to produce particular
targets of state surveillance. In Speculative Security, Marieke de
Goede describes how previously unscrutinized practices such as
donations and remittances, especially across national borders, have
been affected by security measures that include datamining, asset
freezing, and transnational regulation. These "precrime" measures
focus on transactions that are perfectly legal but are thought to
hold a specific potential to support terrorism. The pursuit of
suspect monies is not simply an issue of financial regulation, she
shows, but a broad political, social, and even cultural phenomenon
with profound effects on everyday life. Speculative Security offers
a range of examples that illustrate the types of security
interventions employed today, including the extralegal targeting
and breaking up of the al-Barakaat financial network that was
accompanied by raids in the United States, asset freezes in Sweden,
and the incarceration of a money remitter at Guantanamo Bay. De
Goede develops the paradigm of "speculative security" as a way to
understand the new fusing of finance and security, denoting the
speculative nature of both the means and the ends of the war on
terrorist financing. Ultimately, de Goede reveals how the idea of
creating "security" appeals to multiple imaginable-and
unimaginable-futures in order to enable action in the present.
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