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Risk and the War on Terror

By: Amoore Louise
Editor: Marieke de Goede
Risk and the War on Terror
Retail Price: $210.00
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ISBN-13: 9780415443234
ISBN: 0415443237
Format: Hardcover
Date Published: September 2008
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Table of Contents:


List of figures
Foreword: Rusing riskp. 1
Governing by risk in the war on terrorp. 5
Risk, Precaution, Governancep. 21
Taming the Future: the dispositif of risk in the war on terrorp. 23
Spatial Imaginaries: economic globalization and the war on terrorp. 41
The State of Preemption: managing terrorism through counter lawp. 57
Crime, Deviance, Exceptionp. 77
Choosing our Wars, Transforming Governance: cancer, crime and terrorp. 79
Risk, Preemption and Exception in the War on Terrorist Financingp. 91
Consulting, Culture, the Camp: on the economies of the exceptionp. 112
Biopolitics, Biometrics, Bordersp. 131
Fast Capitalism/Slow Terror: cushy cosmopolitanism and its extraordinary othersp. 133
Putting the Migration-Security Complex in its Placep. 158
Embodying Risk: using biometrics to protect the bordersp. 178
Risks, Tactics, Resistancesp. 195
Border Hacks: the risks of tactical mediap. 197
Subverting Discourses of Risk in the War on Terrorp. 218
Conclusion: Risk and Imagination in the War on Terrorp. 233
Bibliographyp. 247
Indexp. 274
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ISBN: 0415443237
ISBN-13: 9780415443234
Publisher: 10308795
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Audience: General

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