Governing events and life: 'Emergency' in UK Civil Contingencies
Governing events and life: 'Emergency' in UK Civil Contingencies
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DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.09.002
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Adey, Peter
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作者：
Anderson, Ben;Adey, Peter
紧急状态现在是21世纪世纪生活管理的一部分，被国家、公司和非政府组织应用于各种事件。尽管紧急状态无处不在，但很少有人思考紧急状态本身与“紧急状态”的区别。在本文中，我们补充和扩展现有的工作法律的政治地理的“紧急状态”，认为不同版本的紧急情况下产生的安全设备。我们通过组织形式和技术的装置的案例研究，通过这种方法来安全的政治地理，英国国家响应一系列事件：英国民事突发事件。借鉴文献分析，访谈和观察，我们展示了事件是如何在英国民事突发事件，通过一些不同版本的紧急情况，开辟了一个特定的行动领域：一个事件发生后的间隔，但在该事件成为一场灾难。在这段时间内，联合王国民事意外事件围绕着“紧急准备状态”和“紧急应对状态”，而宣布"紧急状态“的能力仍然是潜在的。最后，我们阐述了我们的方法对未来如何管理事件和生活的工作的影响。(C)2011爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Emergency is now a taken-for-granted part of how 21st century life is governed, being applied by states, corporations and non-governmental organisations to a wide range of events. Despite its ubiquity, there are few reflections on emergency itself in distinction from the 'state of emergency'. In this paper we complement and extend existing work on the legal political geographies of the 'state of emergency', by arguing that distinct versions of emergency are produced in apparatuses of security. We exemplify this approach to the political geographies of security through a case study of the apparatus of organisational forms and techniques through which the UK state responds to a range of events: UK Civil Contingencies. Drawing on documentary analysis, interviews and observation, we show how events are governed in UK Civil Contingencies through a number of distinct versions of emergency that open up a specific field of action: an interval after an event occurs but before that event becomes a disaster. In relation to this interval, UK Civil Contingencies revolves around a 'state of preparing for emergencies' and a 'state of responding in emergency', whilst the ability to proclaim a 'state of emergency' remains in potential. In conclusion we set out the implications of our approach for future work on how events and life are governed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.