Performing preemption
Performing preemption
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DOI：
10.1177/0967010614543585
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发表时间：
2014-10-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Hoijtink, Marijn
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作者：
de Goede, Marieke;Simon, Stephanie;Hoijtink, Marijn
9/11 事件发生近 15 年后，是时候解决先发制人的命令如何融入日常安全实践和官僚运作的问题了。正如越来越多的安全研究和政治地理学文献所指出的那样，为灾难做准备、做好最坏的打算以及编写灾难脚本是当代投机性安全文化的核心要素。 9/11 委员会报告中讨论最多的调查结果之一是，美国安全部门没有充分发挥想象力来预见和先发制人。本文介绍了一个特刊，其中提供了一系列深入的实证研究，分析了“想象力常规化”的必要性如何在不同政策领域的实践中发挥作用。它运用表演性的视角来概念化和解释先发制人的具体化及其与预先存在的安全官僚机构的纠缠。我们详细描述了“间隙安全”的理想化特征，其中包括互操作性、出现性、灵活性和分析远见，旨在弥合安全空间的感知差距以及当前和可能的未来之间的时间桥梁。 “做最坏的打算、弥合差距”的豪言壮语在实践中却遭遇重重障碍、挑战和逆转。通过表演性的概念可以清楚地看出，这些障碍和挑战不仅阻碍了实施，而且积极塑造了不同领域先发制人的具体化。
Nearly 15 years after 9/11, it is time to grapple with the way in which imperatives of preemption have made their way into routine security practice and bureaucratic operations. As a growing literature in security studies and political geography has argued, preparing for catastrophe, expecting the worst, and scripting disasters are central elements of contemporary, speculative security culture. One of the most-discussed findings of the 9/11 Commission Report was that US security services had insufficiently deployed their imagination to foresee and preempt the attacks. This article introduces a special issue that offers a range of in-depth empirical studies that analyse how the imperative of routinizing the imagination' plays out in practice across different policy domains. It deploys the lens of performativity in order to conceptualize and explain the materialization of preemption and its situated entanglements with pre-existing security bureaucracies. We detail the idealized traits of a security of the interstice', which include interoperability, emergence, flexibility and analytical foresight that are meant to bridge the perceived gaps of security spaces and the temporal bridges between present and possible futures. The lofty rhetoric of preparing for the worst and bridging the gaps encounters numerous obstacles, challenges and reversals in practice. As becomes clear through the notion of performativity, such obstacles and challenges do not just stand in the way' of implementation, but actively shape the materialization of preemption in different sectors.