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Coaffee, Jon (2021) Futureproofing against shock : institutional responses to terrorist risk in London, 1990–2020. Applied Geography, 133 . 102493. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102493 ISSN 0143-6228.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102493
Abstract
Employing an institutionalist approach to governance, and engaging with recent scholarship on organisational resilience and scalar politics, this paper focuses upon institutional reactions to terrorism in London between 1990-2020 and explores the mechanisms through which responses to disruption occurred. Empirically, this applied paper tracks specific emergency processes, governance assemblages and policy mechanisms that have been enacted in London in response to terrorism. More specifically, it tracks changes in the institutional dynamics involved in the reorganisation of traditional governance apparatus, the mobilisation of adaptive capacity, and the generation of multi-stakeholder visions for futureproofing against terrorist attack. Such institutional changes are explored through three vignettes of responses to terrorist incidents: against financial targets in the 1990s; in relation the risk of attack after 9/11 and in preparation for securing the 2012 Olympics; and in response to recent attacks against crowded places since 2012. This paper illuminates how institutional responses to terrorism have evolved from a focus upon small specialist networks that dealt just with terrorism, to much larger multi-institutional, multi-scalar and multi-hazard responses to, and preparations for, complex emergencies that cut across numerous administrative jurisdictions. The paper concludes by posing wider questions about optimal institutional form(s) required for responding to future shocks.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Terrorism, Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- England -- London, Crisis management in government -- England -- London, Terrorism investigation -- England -- London, Terrorist threat warning systems , National security -- England -- London, Risk -- Sociological aspects, Emergency management-- England -- London | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Applied Geography | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0143-6228 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 133 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 102493 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102493 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 June 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 December 2022 |
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