224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy. Security is not in the first instance a right or value but a... Read more
1. Security unbound and democracy, 2. Political reading of security, 3. Insecurity as exception, 4. Diffusing insecurities, 5. Assembling suspicion, 6. Surveillance, democracy, privacy, 7. Security technology enacting democratic limits, 8. Insecurity, democracy, political.
Biography
Jef Huysmans is Professor of Security Studies, Open University, UK.
