Risk and the War on Terror

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Foreword: Rusing risk......Page 18
Introduction: Governing by risk in the war on terror......Page 22
Part I: Risk, precaution, governance......Page 38
1 Taming the future: The dispositif of risk in the war on terror......Page 40
2 Spatial imaginaries: Economic globalization and the war on terror......Page 58
3 The state of preemption: Managing terrorism risk through counter law......Page 74
Part II: Crime, deviance, exception......Page 94
4 Choosing our wars, transforming governance: Cancer, crime, and terror......Page 96
5 Risk, preemption and exception in the war on terrorist financing......Page 114
6 Consulting, culture, the camp: On the economies of the exception......Page 129
8 Putting the migration–security complex in its place......Page 175
9 Embodying risk: Using biometrics to protect the borders......Page 195
Part IV: Risk, tactics, resistances......Page 212
10 Border hacks: The risks of tactical media......Page 214
11 Subverting discourses of risk in the war on terror......Page 235
12 Risk and imagination in the war on terror......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 264
Index......Page 291