Translations of Security A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures

• Main Authors: Villumsen Berling, Trine, Gad, Ulrik Pram, Lund Petersen, Karen, Wæver, Ole
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; University of Copenhagen; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge New Security Studies
• Subjects: Anthropology; Contemporary Societies; Copenhagen School Securitization Theory; Critical Security; Critical Security Studies; Cultural Rights; Danish Health Authority; disciplines; Global Civil Society Networks; Intercultural communication; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; International Relations; International relations > Risk assessment; International Security; Jeppe Strandsbjerg; National security; National security > Methodology; Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory; Nonfiction; Other social problems & services; Peacebuilding Fund; Political Freedom; Political Research Methods; Political Science; Politics; Politics and government; professions; Reactionary Political Actors; risk; Securitisation Theory; securitizations; Security (National & International); security logics; security threats; Social research and statistics; Society and Social Sciences; Socio-economic Development; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Specific Cultural Scripts; Thule Air Base; Translation Zone; Triple Frontier; TV2 News; unwanted futures; Warfare and defence; Global Civil Society Networks; security logics; Copenhagen School; unwanted futures; Gas Mask; professions; Early Translations Theory; United States Donald Trump; Specific Cultural Scripts; Contemporary Societies; Socio-economic Development; Peacebuilding Fund; Securitisation Theory; Danish Health Authority; Triple Frontier; Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory; Tri-border Area; security threats; Thule Air Base; Cultural Rights; TV2 News; Jeppe Strandsbjerg; Critical Security Studies; Copenhagen School Securitization Theory; Translation Zone; Maja Zehfuss; disciplines; risk; securitizations; Canadian War Museum; Reactionary Political Actors; Super-empowered Individuals
• ISBN: 1000452182; 9781000452181; 9781032007090; 9781032007151; 103200715X; 1032007095; 1003175244; 9781000452228; 9781003175247; 1000452220
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003175247

This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger. Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organisational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically address the new situation. Complex and uncertain threat environments, such as terrorism, climate change, and the global financial crisis, have paved the way for new forms of security governance that have profoundly transformed the ways in which threats are handled today. Crucially, there is a decentralisation of the management of security, which is increasingly handled by a broad set of societal actors that previously were not considered powerful in the conduct of security affairs. This transformation of security knowledge and management changes the meaning of traditional concepts and practices, and calls for investigation into the many meanings of security implied when contemporary societies manage radical dangers, risks, and threats. It is necessary to study both what these meanings are and how they developed from the security practices of the past. Addressing this knowledge gap, the book asks how different ideas about threats, risk, and dangers meet in the current practices of security, broadly understood, and with what political consequences. This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies, anthropology, risk studies, science and technology studies and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.routledge.com/Translations-of-Security-A-Framework-for-the-Study-of-Unwanted-Futures/Berling-Gad-Petersen-Waever/p/book/9781032007090 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license