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Governing Future Emergencies
Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service|
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 06.07.2018 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319719917 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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<div><p>The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that continually threaten to disrupt it. This book concentrates on two such changes. First, it takes stock of the ever-increasing development and diversification of data and digital technologies that security organisations have at their disposal. Secondly, it examines how these digital devices have fostered a new direction in which security agencies primarily conceive of emergencies as so many risks of the future. Emergency governance has undergone what might be called an anticipatory turn here, with digitally rendered and imagined scenes of future contingency becoming cause and justification for intervention in the here and now. Rather than scrutinising this turn at its most spectacular heights in the domains, for instance, of warfare or counter-terrorism, the book explores the facilitation of risk governance through digital technologies in a more quotidian incarnation; namely by tracing the steps that the United Kingdom’s Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) take to govern fire emergencies whose potential has been identified but have yet to unfold. Delving into the FRS, the book maps out a digital infrastructure that includes various software, institutional processes, multiple forms of risk calculation but also human beings, relations and consciousness and an array of material spaces in which these things exist. Accentuated here is how these components assemble to produce projections of future emergencies on a number of sensorial registers. This infrastructure is shown, in turn, to inform and shape a catalogue of refined modes of action through which interventions on future emergencies are made in the present. Engaging in depth with this infrastructure, the FRS provides an understanding of risk as a lived relation, risk as an organisational ethos whose liveliness is founded upon and reverberates through the relations existing between those people and things operating in the FRS to make sense of potential fire emergencies. Using the concept of lived relation as a foundation, the book develops a critical understanding of anticipatory governance by grasping its resonance with issues emanating in the wider field of security, showing how security figures as a set of practices that rely upon and cultivates affective conditions, that enrols the force of elements like fire into its institutional arrangement, that draw on an array of knowledges to exercise power and, in the process, that instantiate new forms of subjectivity.</p></div>
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Genealogies of the Future: The Emergence of Fire Governance in the UK.- Chapter 3: Assembling Interfaces to Make Sense of the Future.- Chapter 4: Exercising Uncertainty: Aesthetic Renderings of Future Emergencies.- Chapter 5: Big Data, Subjectification and Preventing Fires.- Chapter 6: Be Prepared, To Protect: Detournement and the Forces behind Governmental Logics.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
Nathaniel O'Grady is a lecturer in human geography at the University of West England, UK. He has published widely on how risk and digital technologies are transforming the politics and practice of emergency governance.
<div>Through an exploration of the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), this book examines how the emergence of digital technologies, combined with a policy emphasis on risk, have fundamentally transformed the way society is secured against emergencies. Forms of anticipatory governance have developed in which interventions are made in the present but are oriented towards, and justified through, digitally rendered visions of future contingencies. At the same time, risk is understood as a ‘lived relation’: a set of pervasive knowledge found to cut across and constitute everyday life in the FRS. It is by inquiring into such practices and the new modes of power they support that the book engages with, investigates and conceptualises anew some of the key geo-political issues that characterize security and emergency governance. </div><div><br></div><div>Appealing to scholars interested in risk, digital technologies and their involvement in matters of governance, the book outlines the forms of knowledge now deployed to make sense of and govern the future. It demonstrates the affective and material forces enrolled in emergency governance and elaborates on the range of temporal entanglements that underpin actions taken to govern emergencies yet to unfold. Ultimately the book explores the genealogies inscribed into risk's present mobilisation and asks the reader to consider how we are made subject to forms of governance oriented towards the future?</div>
<p>Engages with important debates proliferating across Geography, International Relations and Sociology by exploring in new ways the transformations security practices undergo in a context where a drive towards governing emergencies through risk intersects with the realisation of new capabilities for data and digital technologies.</p><p>Offers fresh insight into the data-based facilitation of governance by risk outside of the spectacular, global domain, concentrating instead on its incarnation as an experience that is lived on a daily basis in local organisations attendant to everyday emergencies.</p><p>Affords a rigorous account of the intricate processes by which digital infrastructures including hardware, software, data export cables, algorithms, human beings and their thought processes, assemble to negotiate and imagine renditions of contingent futures whilst deconstructing the myriad techniques and governmental logics through which imagined futures are acted upon in the here and now.</p><p>Develops a critical understanding of the technologies and techniques developed by security organisations by drawing on and expanding upon broader conceptual debates across the social sciences, including those related the force of the elemental, affective conditions emanating from material space, the enrolment of aesthetic knowledge as a political tool and re-application of technologies from one domain to another.</p><p>By introducing these empirical and conceptual trajectories, sheds new light on pressing questions which emerge where security meets risk rationales an digital technologies, such as: how is subjectivity reformulated through digital technologies which now play a crucial role in governance? Through what parameters are future emergencies perceived and thought of as plausible realities to come? What forms of knowledge become enrolled in governing apparatuses and whose interests are they underpinned by? And how is risk lived as a spatially bound and temporally inflected reality that reverberates across ordinary people governing extraordinary events?</p>
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