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first book to explore questions of secrecy in research design and
fieldwork methodology assesses, discusses and analyses the
challenges of secrecy in qualitative security research includes
discussion of examples and best- or worst-practice experiences from
researchers in qualitative security research there is a growing
interest in research methods in critical security studies and this
fills a niche in that field features many leading scholars in the
field of critical security
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.
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.
This edited volume brings together leading scholars to debate the
promises of poststructural politics within the study of the
International Political Economy. The volume offers a sustained
theoretical dialogue on the meaning of discourse, identity, and
representation for practices of political economy. It addresses the
boundaries of the discipline of IPE and interrogates how a
poststructural politics challenges these boundaries to include, for
example, the politics of everyday life and the politics of identity
and resistance.
This edited volume brings together leading scholars to debate the
promises of poststructural politics within the study of the
International Political Economy (IPE). The volume offers a
sustained theoretical dialogue on the meaning of discourse,
identity, and representation for practices of political economy.
Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of
economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood
condemned as disreputable fraud. How this change in status came
about, and what it reveals about the nature of finance, is the
story told in Virtue, Fortune, and Faith. A unique cultural history
of modern financial markets from the early eighteenth century to
the present day, the book offers a genealogical reading of the
historical insecurities, debates, and controversies that had to be
purged from nascent credit practices in order to produce the image
of today's coherent and - largely - rational global financial
sphere. Marieke de Goede discusses moral, religious, and political
transformations that have slowly naturalized the domain of finance.
Using a deft integration of feminist and poststructuralist
approaches, her book demonstrates that finance - not just its rules
of personal engagement, but also its statistics, formulas,
instruments, and institutions - is a profoundly cultural and
politically contingent practice. When closely examined, the history
of finance is one of colonial conquest, sexual imagination,
constructions of time, and discourses of legitimate (or
illegitimate) profit making. Regardless, this history has had a
far-reaching impact on the development of the modern international
financial institutions that act as the stewards of the world's
economic resources. De Goede explores the political contestations
over ideas of time and money; the gendered discourse of credit and
credibility; differences among gambling, finance, and speculation;
debates over the proper definition of the free market; the meaning
of financial crisis; and themorality of speculation. In an era when
financial practices are pronounced too specialized for broad-based
public, democratic debate, Virtue, Fortune, and Faith questions
assumptions about international finance's unchallenged position and
effectively exposes its ambiguous scientific authority.
first book to explore questions of secrecy in research design and
fieldwork methodology assesses, discusses and analyses the
challenges of secrecy in qualitative security research includes
discussion of examples and best- or worst-practice experiences from
researchers in qualitative security research there is a growing
interest in research methods in critical security studies and this
fills a niche in that field features many leading scholars in the
field of critical security
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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