Worst-case scenario? : governance, mediation & the security regime / / Stuart Price

• Autore: Price Stuart <1958->
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Zed Books, , ©2011; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.03
• Soggetto topico: National security; Internal security; Emergency management - Planning; Terrorism and mass media; Social control; Political control & freedoms
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-283) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Preparing for the worst?; 1 Myths of security; 2 Governance, technology and the state; 3 The security regime: state, governance and contingency; 4 The scenario: imagining events; 5 The security event: exercise, emergency and 'real world' crises; 6 The mediated event; 7 'Real world' security: neglect, incompetenceand the overproduction of force; 8 Pre-emption and perception management; Conclusion: Threat and social discipline; Notes; References; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this original, provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime - the worst-case scenario. This consists of the projection of a significant material threat, used to bolster the security agenda of the neoliberal state. Using a wide range of official sources and case studies, from 9/11 to the Stockwell shooting, Price analyses the manoeuvres of the security regime as it attempts to reproduce a 'command structure' within civil society.
• Titolo autorizzato: Worst-case scenario
• ISBN: 1-350-22413-8; 1-78032-137-6; 1-283-17198-8; 9786613171986; 1-84813-531-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789521603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II