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Brassett, James and Vaughan-Williams, Nick (2015) Security and the performative politics of resilience : critical infrastructure protection and humanitarian emergency preparedness. Security dialogue, Volume 46 (Number 1). pp. 32-50. doi:10.1177/0967010614555943 ISSN 0967-0106.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010614555943
Abstract
This article critically examines the performative politics of resilience in the context of the current UK Civil Contingencies (UKCC) agenda. It places resilience within a wider politics of (in)security that seeks to govern risk by folding uncertainty into everyday practices that plan for, pre-empt, and imagine extreme events. Moving beyond existing diagnoses of resilience based either on ecological adaptation or neoliberal governmentality, we develop a performative approach that highlights the instability, contingency, and ambiguity within attempts to govern uncertainties. This performative politics of resilience is investigated via two case studies that explore 1) Critical National Infrastructure protection and 2) Humanitarian Emergency Preparedness. By drawing attention to the particularities of how resilient knowledge is performed and what it does in diverse contexts, we repoliticise resilience as an ongoing, incomplete, and potentially self-undermining discourse.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | National security, Emergency management | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Security dialogue | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0967-0106 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 7 February 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 46 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 32-50 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0967010614555943 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 December 2015 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 December 2015 |
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