Anticipating emergencies: Technologies of preparedness and the matter of security
Anticipating emergencies: Technologies of preparedness and the matter of security
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DOI：
10.1177/0967010612438432
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Anderson, Ben
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作者：
Adey, Peter;Anderson, Ben
在本文中，我们通过英国的准备来研究当代的“弹性”——根据英国民事突发事件的法律和组织原则以及民事保护立法和实践制定的安全机制。通过审查构成民事意外事件中进行的演习的设计、实践和技术，文章首先建议，应在塑造演习的高度具体的社会和政治背景下理解演习作为准备和“不可想象”的世界末日想象的例子而动员起来的方式。更重要的是，本文通过对演习及其设计、材料、玩法和偶然关系的深入分析，对安全组合的生活提供了细致入微的理解。文章试图加深和扩大对安全研究中重要内容的关注，以对物体、身体影响、意外事件和过度行为的关注为动力，提出更严肃的关注安全及其实践如何以一种不仅与失败相关的方式带来惊喜、震惊、迷惑和破坏。
In this article, we examine contemporary 'resilience' through UK preparedness - an apparatus of security enacted under the legal and organizational principles of UK Civil Contingencies and civil protection legislation and practices. By examining the design, practices and technologies that constitute the exercises performed within Civil Contingencies, the article first suggests that the manner in which exercises have been mobilized as examples of preparedness and apocalyptical imaginations of the 'unthinkable' should be understood within the highly specific societal and political contexts that shape them. More substantially, the article then provides a nuanced understanding of the life of the security assemblage through an in-depth analysis of the exercise and its design, materials, play and contingent relations. Seeking to deepen and widen concerns for what matters in security studies, animated by concern for objects, bodily affects, contingencies and excess, the article contends for a more serious concern with how security and its practices can surprise, shock, enthral and disrupt in a manner that need not only be associated with failure.