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Heath-Kelly, Charlotte (2015) Securing through the failure to secure? : the ambiguity of resilience at the bombsite. Security Dialogue, Volume 46 (Number 1). pp. 69-85. doi:10.1177/0967010614552546 ISSN 0967-0106.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010614552546
Abstract
Resilience discourses resignify uncertainty and insecurity as the means to attain security. Security failure is resignified as productive and becomes part of the story about security learning and improvements in
anticipatory capability. In this article, I explore questions of failure mediation and ‘securing through insecurity’. If resilience policies suggest that failure and insecurity can be mediated and redeployed in the cause of success, what becomes of visceral sites of security failure such as the terrorist bombsite? This article focuses on a site where security agencies failed to prevent the bombing of a packed nightclub in Bali, in order to explore ambiguity of failure in the resilience era. It considers the efforts of politicians and activists to perform the site as resilient, and the spatial and temporal excess which eludes this performance. The article contributes to critical literatures on resilience by showing, through the ambiguities of resilience at the bombsite, that resilience is a chimera with regards to its supposed incorporation of insecurity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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| Divisions: | Other > Institute of Advanced Study Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Internal security, Security, International, Bali Bombings, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, 2002, Memorialization | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Security Dialogue | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0967-0106 | ||||||
| Official Date: | February 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 46 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 69-85 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0967010614552546 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||
| Funder: | British Academy (BA) | ||||||
| Grant number: | SG121055 (BA) |
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