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While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of
security, this book focuses on the subject position from which
securitization' and other security practices take place. First, it
argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a
function of security and insecurity. It suggests, consequently,
that no analytic frame can produce or reproduce the subject in some
original or primordial form that does not already reproduce a
fundamental or structural insecurity. It critically returns,
through a variety of studies, to traditionally held conceptions of
security and insecurity as simple predicates or properties that can
be associated or not to some more essential, more primeval, more
true or real subject. It thus opens and explores the question of
the security of the subject itself, locating, through a
reconstruction of the foundations of the concept of security, in
the modern conception of the subject, an irreducible insecurity.
Second, it argues that practices of security can only be carried
out as a certain kind of negotiation about values. The analyses in
this book find security expressed again and again as a function of
value cast in terms of an explicit or implicit philosophy of life,
of culture, of individual and collective anxieties and aspirations,
of expectations about what may be sacrificed and what is worth
preserving. By way of a critical examination of the value function
of security, this book discovers the foundation of values as
dependent on a certain management of their own vulnerability,
continuously under threat, and thus fundamentally and necessarily
insecure. This book will be an indispensible resource for students
of Critical Security Studies, Political Theory, Philosophy, Ethics
and International Relations in general.
This Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical
reflection and empirical research by a group of leading
international scholars relating to recent transformations in the
field of security studies. In today's globalized setting, the
challenge of maintaining security is no longer limited to the
traditional foreign-policy and military tools of the nation-state,
and we face a wide range of security threats. Since the late 1980s,
a flurry of research and scholarship has brought forth a new range
of theoretical positions and methodologies for studying security,
focusing on issues such as information technology, biological and
chemical warfare, resource conflicts, pandemics, mass migrations,
transnational terrorism, and environmental dangers. This Handbook
represents a critical stock-taking of the evolution of security
studies, a reflection on the new security thinking, and a critical
review of its premises and ambitions, its politics, and its
continuities and discontinuities with what remains of the Cold War
security studies tradition. The contributors discuss and evaluate
the critical shifts in security studies along four key axes: * Part
I: New Security Concepts * Part II: New Security Subjects * Part
III: New Security Objects * Part IV: New Security Practices
Offering a comprehensive theoretical and empirical overview of this
evolving field, this book is now available in paperback and will be
essential reading for all students of critical security studies,
human security, international/global security, political theory and
IR in general J. Peter Burgess is Research Professor at PRIO, the
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, where he leads the
Security Programme and edits the interdisciplinary journal Security
Dialogue. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU), and
Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Brussels.
This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the
study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management,
centred on the notion of repairing. The volume advances thinking on
disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial
challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially,
politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to
recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis,
contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing
through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings
actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such
processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert,
political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the
"what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These
struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based
struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation,
existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality.
The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge
theoretical discussions and original empirical research to put
critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into
dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study
of environmental disasters. This book will be of much interest to
students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and
philosophy.
This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance
and security, and the alleged privacy-security trade-off, focusing
on the citizen's perspective. Recent revelations of mass
surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing
capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious
reactions to these activities shows that the political will to
implement them appears to be an unbroken trend. The resulting move
into a surveillance society is, however, contested for many
reasons. Are the resulting infringements of privacy and other human
rights compatible with democratic societies? Is security
necessarily depending on surveillance? Are there alternative ways
to frame security? Is it possible to gain in security by giving up
civil liberties, or is it even necessary to do so, and do citizens
adopt this trade-off? This volume contributes to a better and
deeper understanding of the relation between privacy, surveillance
and security, comprising in-depth investigations and studies of the
common narrative that more security can only come at the expense of
sacrifice of privacy. The book combines theoretical research with a
wide range of empirical studies focusing on the citizen's
perspective. It presents empirical research exploring factors and
criteria relevant for the assessment of surveillance technologies.
The book also deals with the governance of surveillance
technologies. New approaches and instruments for the regulation of
security technologies and measures are presented, and
recommendations for security policies in line with ethics and
fundamental rights are discussed. This book will be of much
interest to students of surveillance studies, critical security
studies, intelligence studies, EU politics and IR in general. A PDF
version of this book is available for free in open access via
www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 license.
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This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance
and security, and the alleged privacy-security trade-off, focusing
on the citizen's perspective. Recent revelations of mass
surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing
capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious
reactions to these activities shows that the political will to
implement them appears to be an unbroken trend. The resulting move
into a surveillance society is, however, contested for many
reasons. Are the resulting infringements of privacy and other human
rights compatible with democratic societies? Is security
necessarily depending on surveillance? Are there alternative ways
to frame security? Is it possible to gain in security by giving up
civil liberties, or is it even necessary to do so, and do citizens
adopt this trade-off? This volume contributes to a better and
deeper understanding of the relation between privacy, surveillance
and security, comprising in-depth investigations and studies of the
common narrative that more security can only come at the expense of
sacrifice of privacy. The book combines theoretical research with a
wide range of empirical studies focusing on the citizen's
perspective. It presents empirical research exploring factors and
criteria relevant for the assessment of surveillance technologies.
The book also deals with the governance of surveillance
technologies. New approaches and instruments for the regulation of
security technologies and measures are presented, and
recommendations for security policies in line with ethics and
fundamental rights are discussed. This book will be of much
interest to students of surveillance studies, critical security
studies, intelligence studies, EU politics and IR in general. A PDF
version of this book is available for free in open access via
www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 license.
This book examines the possibility of socially responsible
innovation in security, using an interdisciplinary approach.
Responsible innovation in security refers to a comprehensive
approach that aims to integrate knowledge related to stakeholders
operating at both the demand and the supply side of security -
technologists, citizens, policymakers and ethicists. Security
innovations can only be successful in the long term if all the
social, ethical and ecological impacts, and threats and
opportunities, both short term and long term, are assessed and
prioritized alongside technical and commercial impacts. The first
part of this volume focuses on security technology innovation and
its perception and acceptance by the public, while the second part
delves deeper into the processes of decision-making and democratic
control, raising questions about the ethical implications of
security ruling. This book will be of much interest to students of
critical security studies, sociology, technology studies and IR in
general.
This new Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical
reflection and empirical research by a group of leading
international scholars in the subdiscipline of Critical Security
Studies.
In today 's globalised setting, the challenge of maintaining
security is no longer limited to the traditional foreign-policy and
military tools of the nation-state, and security and insecurity are
no longer considered as dependent only upon geopolitics and
military strength, but rather are also seen to depend upon social,
economic, environmental, ethical models of analysis and tools of
action. The contributors discuss and evaluate this fundamental
shift in four key areas:
- New security concepts
- New security subjects
- New security objects
- New security practices
Offering a comprehensive theoretical and empirical overview of
this evolving field, this book will be essential reading for all
students of critical security studies, human security,
international/global security, political theory and IR in
general.
J. Peter Burgess is Research Professor at PRIO, the
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, where he leads the
Security Programme and edits the interdisciplinary journal Security
Dialogue. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the
Norwegian?University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU),
and Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies,
Brussels.
While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of
security, this book focuses on the subject position from which
'securitization' and other security practices take place. First, it
argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a
function of security and insecurity. It suggests, consequently,
that no analytic frame can produce or reproduce the subject in some
original or primordial form that does not already reproduce a
fundamental or structural insecurity. It critically returns,
through a variety of studies, to traditionally held conceptions of
security and insecurity as simple predicates or properties that can
be associated or not to some more essential, more primeval, more
true or real subject. It thus opens and explores the question of
the security of the subject itself, locating, through a
reconstruction of the foundations of the concept of security, in
the modern conception of the subject, an irreducible insecurity.
Second, it argues that practices of security can only be carried
out as a certain kind of negotiation about values. The analyses in
this book find security expressed again and again as a function of
value cast in terms of an explicit or implicit philosophy of life,
of culture, of individual and collective anxieties and aspirations,
of expectations about what may be sacrificed and what is worth
preserving. By way of a critical examination of the value function
of security, this book discovers the foundation of values as
dependent on a certain management of their own vulnerability,
continuously under threat, and thus fundamentally and necessarily
insecure. This book will be an indispensible resource for students
of Critical Security Studies, Political Theory, Philosophy, Ethics
and International Relations in general.
Integrating the Packaging and Product Experience in Food and
Beverages: A Road-Map to Consumer Satisfaction focuses on the
interrelationship between packaging and the product experience. In
both industry and academia there has been a growing interest in
investigating approaches that capture consumer responses to
products that go beyond traditional sensory and liking measures.
These approaches include assessing consumers' emotional responses,
obtaining temporal measures of liking, as well as numerous
published articles considering the effect of situation and context
in the evaluation of food and beverage products. For fast-moving
consumer goods (FMCG) products in particular, packaging can be
considered as a contributor to consumer satisfaction. Recent
cross-modal research illustrated consumers' dissatisfaction or
delight with a product can be evoked when there is dissonance
between the packaging and the product experience. The book includes
an extensive overview of an adapted satisfaction scale that has
been tailored for the food and beverage sector and which identifies
varying satisfaction response modes such as contentment, pleasure,
and delight with a product. This is an important development as it
provides insights about products that can be used to market
specific categories and brands of foods and beverages. The book
demonstrates the value of this approach by bringing together case
studies that consider the interrelationships between packaging
design, shape, on-pack sensory messages, expectations, and consumer
satisfaction with the product.
This is the story of two groups of people in a mid-size New Jersey
city in the late 1980s and early 1990s. One group is the staff of
Education Management, Inc., and the other consists of the owners
and residents of a condominium, Brookfield Town Homes. At the
corporation the primary focus is on the Marketing division, newly
headed by Jerilynn Grady, who lacks experience but is headstrong
and ambitious. She immediately alienates her top lieutenants,
Claude Dixon (press relations) and Marilyn Brentano (publications).
Jerilynn sees everyone as a friend or enemy. Dixon provides the
link to the condo group. He and Elise Barksdale. a black fellow
owner, work together to solve the owners association's persistent
serious financial problems. Both groups have conflicts and disputes
that include romances, marriages, divorces, affairs; political
fallings out; racial, ethnic, and cultural differences; health
issues including Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism, and depression.
Jerilynn finally destroys herself by trying to topple the CEO and
his paramour, the executive vice president. The condo owners try
unsuccessfully to get the Resolution Trust Corporation to complete
the construction repairs promised by the failed Savings & Loan
association. Claude and Elise negotiate a low-interest municipal
loan to avert disaster. Still, the owners face dire financial
straits.
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