1st Edition

Rhetoric of InSecurity The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts

By Victoria Baines Copyright 2022
154 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years. The work considers the history of security rhetoric in a number of distinct but related contexts, including the United States’ security strategy, the "war" on Big Tech, and current concerns such as cybersecurity. Focusing on the language of security discourse, it draws common... Read more
 

Chapter 1 - The Classical Heritage of Modern (In)Security Rhetoric

Chapter 2 – The Rhetoric of the US National Security Strategy

Chapter 3 – The War on Big Tech: Construction of Internet Companies as Ideological Others

Chapter 4 – The Dark Wild West World War: Danger and Incapability in the Realm of Cybersecurity

Chapter 5 – Epilogue

Biography

Victoria Baines is Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University’s School of Computing. She has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and lectured at Stanford University. Trained as a Classicist with a specialism in rhetoric in Roman literature, she worked as a law enforcement intelligence analyst and a technology company executive before returning to research. Her research touches on public policy, threat representation, surveillance, cyberspace and internet governance, and futures methods. She regularly contributes to media coverage on the misuse of social and emerging technologies.