Claudia Aradau, Rens Van Munster

Politics of Catastrophe

Genealogies of the Unknown

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events - such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics - which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780415498098
• ISBN-10: 0415498090
• Artikelnr.: 26867622

Autorenporträt

Claudia Aradau is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London. She is the author of Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics out of Security. Rens van Munster is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). He is the author of Securitizing Immigration: The Politics of Risk in the EU.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Securing Catastrophic Futures 3. Conjectures of
Catastrophe: 'The Next Terrorist Attack' 4. Economies of Catastrophe 5.
Imagining Catastrophes 6. Aesthetics of Catastrophe 7. Catastrophe,
Exception, Event 8. Conclusion

Rezensionen

'This book advances our understanding of the complex and often paradoxical terrain of the catastrophe as a field of knowledge and target of anticipatory governance. In doing so, its authors stand at the forefront of new thinking about contemporary regimes of security, power and governmentality.' - Mitchell Dean, University of Newcastle, Australia

'This excellent volume is the first book-length engagement with the implications of catastrophe for contemporary practices of security governing. It is an important contribution to our current understandings of the politics of preemption, and it is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the contemporary logic of security and securitization.' - Mariek de Goede, University of Amsterdam