Security unbound enacting democratic limits

1 Security unbound and democracy; Insecurity and democracy; Unbinding security; Overview; 2 Political reading of security; Security and politics; Democracy and security policies; Enacting limits of democracy; Conclusion; 3 Insecurity as exception; Exceptionalist insecurity; Intensifying insecurity;...

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1. Verfasser: Huysmans, Jef (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Routledge 2014
Schriftenreihe:Critical issues in global politics 6 [i.e. 7]
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Zusammenfassung:1 Security unbound and democracy; Insecurity and democracy; Unbinding security; Overview; 2 Political reading of security; Security and politics; Democracy and security policies; Enacting limits of democracy; Conclusion; 3 Insecurity as exception; Exceptionalist insecurity; Intensifying insecurity; War and enemy construction; Insecurity between law and politics; Militarising politics; Intimacy and resistance; Conclusion; 4 Diffusing insecurities; Insecurity without limits?; Limits, boundaries, continuities; Associative securitising; Conclusion; 5 Assembling suspicion; Security as communications work; Surveillance; From risk to suspicion; Assembling; Conclusion; 6 Surveillance, democracy, privacy; Diffusion and democracy; Surveillance limiting democracy; Privacy; Extraction, bodies, resistance; Privacy revisited; Conclusion; 7 Security technology and democratic limits; Technological imperative and technocracy; Breakdown of sociality; Post-humanity; Conclusion; Appendix: post-human history, risk, contingency; 8 Insecurity, democracy, political; Exceptionalising politics; Diffusing politics; Conclusion
Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy. Security is not in the first instance a right or value but a practice that challenges democratic institutions and actions. We are familiar with emergency policies in the name of national security challenging parliamentary processes, the space for political dissent
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [192] - 210
Beschreibung:VIII, 215 S.
ISBN:9780415440219
978-0-415-44021-9
9780415440202
978-0-415-44020-2