Burgess Security after the unthinkable

Terror and disenchantment in Norway
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6635-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

Starting with the astonishing lone-wolf terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøyain July 2011 and the extraordinary mutation in security thinking that happened in its aftermath, this book develops an innovative theory of terrorism as the enchantment of danger.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burgess, J. Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: Theory of disenchantment
1. Terror and disenchantment
2. The enchantment of security
3. The invention of vulnerability
4. Our coming security
Part II: Making security-sense of Oslo/Utøya
5. 22 July 2011: Event, meaning and affect
6. The report of the 22/7 Commission
7. There is no alternative to security
8. Giving and taking responsibility for terrorism
After thought

Über Autor(innen)

J. Peter Burgess is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris