Securing 'the Homeland': Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations) - Tapa blanda

Libro 16 de 18: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations

Dunn, Myriam Anna

 
9780415761932: Securing 'the Homeland': Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)
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ISBN 10: 041576193X ISBN 13: 9780415761932
Editorial: Routledge, 2014

Sinopsis

This edited volume uses a ‘constructivist/reflexive’ approach to address critical infrastructure protection (CIP), a central political practice associated with national security.

The politics of CIP, and the construction of the threat they are meant to counter, effectively establish a powerful discursive connection between that the traditional and normal conditions for day-to-day politics and the exceptional dynamics of national security. Combining political theory and empirical case studies, this volume addresses key issues related to protection and the governance of insecurity in the contemporary world. The contributors track the transformation and evolution of critical infrastructures (and closely related issues of homeland security) into a security problem, and analyze how practices associated with CIP constitute, and are an expression of, changing notions of security and insecurity. The book explores aspects of ‘securitisation’ as well as at practices, audiences, and contexts that enable and constrain the production of the specific form of governmentality that CIP exemplifies. It also explores the rationalities at play, the effects of these security practices, and the implications for our understanding of security and politics today.

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Acerca del autor

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is lecturer and head of the new risks research unit at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

Kristian Søby Kristensen is a PhD candidate working with the Research Unit on Defence and Security at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
041576193X
ISBN 13 
9780415761932
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
208
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9780415441094: Securing ’the Homeland’: Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)

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ISBN 10:  0415441099 ISBN 13:  9780415441094
Editorial: Routledge, 2007
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