Worst-case Scenario? : Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime.
Title:
Worst-case Scenario? : Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime.
Author:
Price, Stuart.
ISBN:
9781848135314
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents:
About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Preparing for the worst? -- Forms of authority -- The reproduction of security -- The scenario and established practices -- Risk and the security regime -- Structure of the book -- 1
Regime and regimen -- Two types of authority, or the despotism of structure -- Using the media -- Interdepartmental conflict -- Democracy and security -- Habituation and ideology -- Power and regulation -- The character of power: structural complicity -- Forms of authority and internal dynamics -- 'Commanding' allegiance -- 4
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Abstract:
In this original, provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime - the worst-case scenario. This consists of the projection of a significant material threat, used to bolster the security agenda of the neoliberal state. Using a wide range of official sources and case studies, from 9/11 to the Stockwell shooting, Price analyses the manoeuvres of the security regime as it attempts to reproduce a 'command structure' within civil society.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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