Vulnerability: Governing the social through security politics - Hardcover

 
9781526169372: Vulnerability: Governing the social through security politics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526169371 ISBN 13: 9781526169372
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

What does it mean to be 'vulnerable'? Exploring the rise of 'vulnerability' as an organising concept in migration detention, integration, public health, national security and social policy, this volume reveals the blurring of welfare state logics with national security ends. Governments and international agencies use the language of vulnerability to identify needy constituents and communities, but also to frame that need as potentially dangerous. Using international case studies this book shows how vulnerability governance permeates policy sectors - transforming the methods used to govern, problematise and resolve - bringing questions of risk management and security into social policy, but simultaneously brings social policy sectors into counterterrorism delivery. The combination of welfare state and security logics brings interventions deeper into societies, securitising communities and individuals on account of their needs, governing the social through security politics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte Heath-Kelly is Professor of Counterterrorism and Public Policy at the University of Warwick
Barbara Gruber is Lecturer in International Relations and Security Studies at the University of Groningen

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Social policy, welfare administration and national security have all witnessed the spectacular rise of ‘vulnerability’ as an organising concept. ‘Vulnerability governance’ identifies persons, communities and even nations which require psycho-social and developmental assistance to prevent them from becoming dangerous. ‘Governing through vulnerability’ combines the logics and practices of both the welfare state and the national security state – enabling corrective interventions to delve further and deeper into society.

This volume explores the use of ‘vulnerability governance’ across Europe, North America, North and Western Africa, and the Middle East. Contributors explore how migration detention centres, psychiatric diagnosis, public health campaigns, integration programs and counter-extremism all deploy the language of vulnerability to undertake corrective, securitised interventions at the local level. When defining their subjects as ‘vulnerable’, these programs do not simply provide care and support. Rather, they frame communities through a narrative of ‘needy now, but potentially dangerous later’ – securitising them as a future risk to society. Socio-economic support is used to aid the vulnerable group or individual, but only according to the level of threat they pose to the world around them.

Vulnerability governance demonstrates the complex co-interaction of welfare and security logics in contemporary global politics. This book debates whether this is an effect of neoliberal welfare transformation, which reserves welfare for those who pose a threat to society, or whether the original welfare states were similarly permeated with this security agenda. Vulnerability affects the governance of the social through security politics, but also integrates social policy sectors within counterterrorism.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526169371
ISBN 13 
9781526169372
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Herausgeber
Heath-Kelly Charlotte, Gruber Barbara
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