Affect and security: exercising emergency in 'UK civil contingencies'
Affect and security: exercising emergency in 'UK civil contingencies'
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DOI：
10.1068/d14110
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Adey, Peter
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作者：
Anderson, Ben;Adey, Peter
在本文中，我们通过一个案例研究来探讨情感和安全之间的关系，该案例研究了一种使未来呈现和可操作的技术：在2004年《民事应急法案》之后，在英国应急计划中使用演习。基于对演习的观察和对应急计划人员的采访，我们展示了演习是如何通过在威胁事件发生和成为灾难之间建立一个紧急“间隔”来发挥作用的。这种“间隔”是通过一系列部分连接的情感氛围和情感来呈现的。通过使未来在情感层面上呈现，练习作为等价技术发挥作用，使未来的破坏性事件能够得到控制。通过本案例研究，我们反对将情感与安全的关系框定在“焦虑时代”或“恐惧文化”的划时代描述。相反，我们理解安全影响既是一种手段，通过这种手段，未来在安全装置中得以呈现，也是关系动态的一部分，通过这种动态，装置得以出现、持续、变化和战略性地发挥作用。
In this paper we explore the relation between affect and security through a case study of one technique for making futures present and actionable: the use of exercises in UK emergency planning after the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act. Based on observation of exercises and interviews with emergency planners, we show how exercises function by making present an 'interval' of emergency in between the occurrence of a threatening event and its becoming a disaster. This 'interval' is made present through a set of partially connected affective atmospheres and sensibilities. By making futures present at the level of affect, exercises function as techniques of equivalence that enable future disruptive events to be governed. Through this case study we argue against epochal accounts that frame the relation between affect and security in terms of an 'age of anxiety' or a 'culture of fear'. Instead, we understand security affects to be both a means through which futures are made present in apparatuses of security and a part of the relational dynamics through which apparatuses emerge, endure, change, and function strategically.