Risk and the war on terror
By: edited by Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede.
Contributors: Amoore, Louise.; Goede, Marieke de, 1971-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780415443234; 9780415443241; 9780203927700
Subjects: Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention; Terrorism -- Risk assessment -- United States; Privacy, Right of -- United States; Ports of entry -- Security measures -- United States; Terrorism -- Prevention; Privacy, Right of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: rusing risk / Bill Maurer; title: Introduction: governing by risk in the war on terror / Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede; title: Risk, precaution, governance; title: Taming the future: the dispositif of risk in the war on terror / Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster; title: Spatial imaginaries: economic globalisation and the war on terror / Wendy Larner; title: The state of preemption: managing terrorism risk through counter law / Richard V. Ericson; title: Crime, deviance, exception; title: Choosing our wars, transforming governance: cancer, crime, and terror / Jonathan Simon; title: Risk, preemption and exception in the war on terrorist financing / Marieke de Goede; title: Consulting, culture, the camp: on the economies of the exception / Louise Amoore; title: Biopolitics, biometrics, borders; title: Fast capitalism/slow terror: cushy cosmopolitanism and its extraordinary others / Matthew Sparke; title: Putting the migration-security complex in its place / William Walters; title: Embodying risk: using biometrics to protect the borders / Charlotte Epstein; title: Risk, tactics, resistances; title: Border hacks: the risks of tactical media / Rita Raley; title: Subverting discourses of risk in the war on terror / Susan Bibler Coutin; title: Conclusion: risk and imagination in the war on terror / Mark B. Salter.