1st Edition

Risk and the War on Terror

Edited By Louise Amoore, Marieke de Goede Copyright 2008
296 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers the first comprehensive and critical investigation of the specific modes of risk calculation that are emerging in the so-called War on Terror. Risk and the War on Terror offers an interdisciplinary set of contributions which debate and analyze both the empirical manifestations of risk in the War on Terror and their theoretical implications. From border controls and... Read more

Foreword: Rusing Risk Bill Maurer.  Introduction: Governing by Risk in the War on Terror Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede  Part 1: Risk, Precaution, Governance  1. Taming the Future: The Dispositif of Risk in the War on Terror Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster  2. Spatial Imaginaries: Economic Globalisation and the War on Terror Wendy Larner  3. The State of Preemption: Managing Terrorism Risk through Counter-Law Richard V. Ericson  Part 2: Crime, Deviance, Exception  4. Choosing our Wars, Transforming Governance: Cancer, Crime, and Terror Jonathan Simon  5. Risk, Preemption and Exception in the War on Terrorist Financing Marieke de Goede  6. Consulting, Culture, the Camp: On the Economies of the Exception Louise Amoore  Part 3: Biopolitics, Biometrics, Borders  7. Fast Capitalism/Slow Terror: Cushy Cosmopolitanism and its Extraordinary Others Matthew Sparke  8. Putting the Migration-Security Complex in its Place William Walters  9. Embodying Risk: Using Biometrics to Protect the Borders Charlotte Epstein  Part 4: Risk, Tactics, Resistances  10. Border Hacks: The Risks of Tactical Media Rita Raley  11. Subverting Discourses of Risk in the War on Terror Susan Bibler Coutin  12. Conclusion: Risk and Imagination in the War on Terror Mark B. Salter

Biography

Louise Amoore is Lecturer in Political Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.

Marieke de Goede is Senior Lecturer at the Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

'This anthology's broad coverage of the relationship of risk to the war on terror's proliferation of surveillance is extraordinary. The work of this excellent group of scholars is innovative and compelling.' - Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii, USA

'Risk and the War on Terror is filled with theoretically and empirically fascinating new contributions to our understanding of this crucially important topic.' - Tony Porter, McMaster University, Canada