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Governing Future Emergencies - Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Governing Future Emergencies - Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the
world is secured from the many emergencies that continually
threaten to disrupt it. This book concentrates on two such changes.
First, it takes stock of the ever-increasing development and
diversification of data and digital technologies that security
organisations have at their disposal. Secondly, it examines how
these digital devices have fostered a new direction in which
security agencies primarily conceive of emergencies as so many
risks of the future. Emergency governance has undergone what might
be called an anticipatory turn here, with digitally rendered and
imagined scenes of future contingency becoming cause and
justification for intervention in the here and now. Rather than
scrutinising this turn at its most spectacular heights in the
domains, for instance, of warfare or counter-terrorism, the book
explores the facilitation of risk governance through digital
technologies in a more quotidian incarnation; namely by tracing the
steps that the United Kingdom's Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) take
to govern fire emergencies whose potential has been identified but
have yet to unfold. Delving into the FRS, the book maps out a
digital infrastructure that includes various software,
institutional processes, multiple forms of risk calculation but
also human beings, relations and consciousness and an array of
material spaces in which these things exist. Accentuated here is
how these components assemble to produce projections of future
emergencies on a number of sensorial registers. This infrastructure
is shown, in turn, to inform and shape a catalogue of refined modes
of action through which interventions on future emergencies are
made in the present. Engaging in depth with this infrastructure,
the FRS provides an understanding of risk as a lived relation, risk
as an organisational ethos whose liveliness is founded upon and
reverberates through the relations existing between those people
and things operating in the FRS to make sense of potential fire
emergencies. Using the concept of lived relation as a foundation,
the book develops a critical understanding of anticipatory
governance by grasping its resonance with issues emanating in the
wider field of security, showing how security figures as a set of
practices that rely upon and cultivates affective conditions, that
enrols the force of elements like fire into its institutional
arrangement, that draw on an array of knowledges to exercise power
and, in the process, that instantiate new forms of subjectivity.
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