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Resilience, Emergencies and the Internet: Security In-Formation book cover

1st Edition

Resilience, Emergencies and the Internet Security In-Formation

By Mareile Kaufmann Copyright 2017
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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This book traces how resilience is conceptually grounded in an understanding of the world as interconnected, complex and emergent. In an interconnected world, we are exposed to radical uncertainties, which require new modes of handling them. Security no longer means the promise of protection, but it is redefined as resilience - as security in-formation. Information and the Internet not only... Read more

Preface

Part I: Interconnectedness, emergencies and resilience

1. The emergency paradigm

2. Resilience is the answer!?

3. Thinking for and from relationality

4. From program to programming

Part II: Resilience as a way of governing the Internet

5. Resilience and spatiality

6. Resilience and affect

Part III: Resilience as a way of governing through the Internet

7. Resilience and the digital

8. Resilience and the network

Part IV: Conclusions

9. A theory of resilience and the relational

Biography

Mareile Kaufmann is senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and a post-doc in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, Oslo University, and holds a PhD from Hamburg University.

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