Lentzos, Filippa and Rose, Nikolas (2009) Governing insecurity: contingency planning, protection, resilience. Economy and society, 38 (2). pp. 230-254. ISSN 1469-5766
Abstract
How should we understand the politics of security today? This article addresses this question from one particular perspective, that of 'biosecurity'. It examines contemporary strategies for managing biorisks in three European states: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. We suggest that the framing of threat and response differs, even within Europe, and that one can identify three different configurations: contingency planning, protection and resilience. Each of these embodies a significantly different way of reconciling fundamental imperatives for those who would govern a liberal society today - the imperative of freedom and the imperative of security.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~cont... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Taylor & Francis |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Sets: | Departments > Sociology Research centres and groups > BIOS (Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society) |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/30354/ |
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