Mark Maguire, David A. Westbrook

Getting Through Security

Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the "secret colleges" of counterterrorism, and reflect on what these practices mean for the state and its violence â offering suggestions for the perennial challenge to secure a humane politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780367613020
• ISBN-10: 0367613026
• Artikelnr.: 59982436

Autorenporträt

Mark Maguire is Dean of Maynooth University Faculty of Social Sciences, and former Head of the Department of Anthropology. He has edited a number of recent collections on the anthropology of security, most recently Spaces of Security (NYU Press, 2019) with Setha M. Low. David A. Westbrook is Louis A. Del Cotto Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York. His books include Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters and Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence and the Responsible Projection of US Force.

Inhaltsangabe

SECURITY BETWEEN THE PROFESSION AND THE PUBLIC 1. Introduction: A Sense of the Modern
2. The Horizon of Fear
3. The Secret College
4. The Mysterious Public A VIEW FROM THE PROFESSION 5. Knowledgeable Uncertainty and the Specter of Failure
6. Learning from Experience
or Not
7. Security by Design
8. Conflicted Domains
Scarce Resources
Limited Agency
9. Leviathan Sometimes A VIEW FROM THE PUBLIC 10. The Glamour of Security
11. The Resilience of the Individual
12. Violence
Legitimacy
and the State
13. Security and the Humanization of Bureaucracy
14. Is Security Modern? CONCLUSION 15. Will It End? Appendix: Attacks Mentioned Bibliography