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Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
Claudia Aradau
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Description for Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
Paperback. This book explores the governmentality of terror as a complex discursive and institutional formation deployed at the horizon of a catastrophic future. Num Pages: 176 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JPVH1; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events - such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics - which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The politics ... Read more
This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events - such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics - which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The politics ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
276g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415627382
SKU
V9780415627382
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Ref
99-1
About Claudia Aradau
Claudia Aradau is Lecturer in International Studies and Research Director of the Securities Programme, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University. She is the author of Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics out of Security. Rens van Munster is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). He is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
`This book advances our understanding of the complex and often paradoxical terrain of the catastrophe as a field of knowledge and target of anticipatory governance. In doing so, its authors stand at the forefront of new thinking about contemporary regimes of security, power and governmentality.' - Mitchell Dean, University of Newcastle, Australia ... Read more