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Author Amoore, Louise, author

Title The politics of possibility : risk and security beyond probability / Louise Amoore
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
Contents On authority : probabilities for a world of possibility -- On risk : securing uncertain futures -- On the line : life signatures and the writing of the border -- On location : reconciling security and mobility -- On aesthetics : security's objects and the form of data -- On a potential politics
Summary Dissects the post 9/11 symbiosis between the state and private security firms, and its basis: the conviction that uncertainties-devastation by terrorist attack, financial market collapse-must be discerned and preempted, however unlikely they may be
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject International relations -- Risk assessment.
National security -- Technological innovations
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Technological innovations
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
International relations -- Risk assessment
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Technological innovations
Internationella relationer -- säkerhetsaspekter.
Säkerhetspolitik.
Tekniska innovationer.
Terrorismbekämpning.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013024843
ISBN 9780822377269
0822377268
1306124654
9781306124652