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The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of US security organisations
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Hunter, D. and MacDonald, Malcolm (2017) The emergence of a security discipline in the post 9-11 discourse of US security organisations. Critical Discourse Studies, 14 . ISSN 1740-5904.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2016.1268185
Abstract
This paper explores two views of the changes that have occurred in the US security services as a result of their post 9/11 reform. The first is Bigo’s (2008) suggestion that agencies worldwide have become enmeshed in shared activity so as to constitute a new ‘field of (in)security’. A second, novel perspective is that the security services have evolved many of the characteristics of a discipline or (after Foucault, 1972) ‘discursive formation’, constructing intelligence both as a form of expertly constituted knowledge and as the basis for a new type of professional, disciplinary power. The investigation combines corpus techniques with other discourse analysis procedures to examine a corpus of public-facing texts generated by the US security agencies. The investigation aims to synthesise evidence consistent with both views of the security services’ recent historical change; that features of their discourse signal their emergence simultaneously as a new field and discursive formation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | National security -- United States -- 21st century, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Critical discourse analysis, Corpora (Linguistics) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Discourse Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1740-5904 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 11 January 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 14 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 January 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 July 2018 |
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