Rhetoric Of Insecurity
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Author |
: Victoria Baines |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2021-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000406580 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100040658X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rhetoric of InSecurity by : Victoria Baines
This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years. The work considers the history of security rhetoric in a number of distinct but related contexts, including the United States’ security strategy, the "war" on Big Tech, and current concerns such as cybersecurity. Focusing on the language of security discourse, it draws common threads from the ancient world to the present day and the near future. The book grounds recent comparisons of Donald Trump to the Emperor Nero in a linguistic evidence base. It examines the potential impact on society of policy-makers’ emphasis on the novelty of cybercrime, their likening of the internet to the Wild West, and their claims that criminals have "gone dark". It questions governments’ descriptions of technology companies in words normally reserved for terrorists, and asks who might benefit. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book builds on existing literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences, most notably studies on rhetoric in Greco-Roman texts, and on the articulation of security concerns in law, international relations, and public policy contexts. It adds value to this body of research by offering new points of comparison, and a fresh but tried and tested way of looking at problems that are often presented as unprecedented. It will be essential to legal and policy practitioners, students of Law, Politics, Media, and Classics, and all those interested in employing critical thinking.
Author |
: Zeynep Gambetti |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2013-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814708439 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814708439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rhetorics of Insecurity by : Zeynep Gambetti
In Rhetorics of Insecurity, Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia bring together a select group of scholars to investigate the societal ramifications of the present-day concern with security in diverse contexts and geographies. The essays claim that discourses and practices of security actually breed insecurity, rather than merely being responses to the latter. By relating the binary of security/insecurity to the binary of neoliberalism/neoconservatism, the contributors to this volume reveal the tensions inherent in the proliferation of individualism and the concurrent deployment of techniques of societal regulation around the globe. Chapters explore the phenomena of indistinction, reversal of terms, ambiguity, and confusion in security discourses. Scholars of diverse backgrounds interpret the paradoxical simultaneity of the suspension and enforcement of the law through a variety of theoretical and ethnographic approaches, and they explore the formation and transformation of forms of belonging and exclusion. Ultimately, the volume as a whole aims to understand one crucial question: whether securitized neoliberalism effectively spells the end of political liberalism as we know it today. Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Bogazici University, Istanbul. Marcial Godoy-Anativia is Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, where he serves as coeditor of its online journal e-misférica.
Author |
: Zeynep Gambetti |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2013-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814744369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814744362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rhetorics of Insecurity by : Zeynep Gambetti
In Rhetorics of Insecurity, Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia bring together a select group of scholars to investigate the societal ramifications of the present-day concern with security in diverse contexts and geographies. The essays claim that discourses and practices of security actually breed insecurity, rather than merely being responses to the latter. By relating the binary of security/insecurity to the binary of neoliberalism/neoconservatism, the contributors to this volume reveal the tensions inherent in the proliferation of individualism and the concurrent deployment of techniques of societal regulation around the globe. Chapters explore the phenomena of indistinction, reversal of terms, ambiguity, and confusion in security discourses. Scholars of diverse backgrounds interpret the paradoxical simultaneity of the suspension and enforcement of the law through a variety of theoretical and ethnographic approaches, and they explore the formation and transformation of forms of belonging and exclusion. Ultimately, the volume as a whole aims to understand one crucial question: whether securitized neoliberalism effectively spells the end of political liberalism as we know it today.
Author |
: Catherine Chaput |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1433105853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781433105852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entertaining Fear by : Catherine Chaput
Throughout the political spectrum, successful arguments often rely on fear appeals, whether implicit or explicit. Dominant arguments prey on people's fears - of economic failure, cultural backwardness, or lack of personal safety. Counterarguments feed on other fears, suggesting that audiences are being duped by emotional smokescreens. With chapters on the political, institutional, and cultural manifestations of fear, this book offers diverse investigations into how insecurity and the search for certainty shape contemporary political economic decisions, and explores how the rhetorical manipulation of such fears illuminates a larger struggle for social control.
Author |
: Shelley Feldman |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2011-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820339511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820339512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Accumulating Insecurity by : Shelley Feldman
Accumulating Insecurity examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global military engagements and the militarization of civilian life, and the dramatic increase in day-to-day insecurity associated with contemporary crises in health care, housing, incarceration, personal debt, and unemployment. Contributors to the volume explore how violence is used to maintain conditions for accumulating capital. Across world regions violence is manifested in the increasingly strained, often terrifying, circumstances in which people struggle to socially reproduce themselves. Security is often sought through armaments and containment, which can lead to the impoverishment rather than the nourishment of laboring bodies. Under increasingly precarious conditions, governments oversee the movements of people, rather than scrutinize and regulate the highly volatile movements of capital. They often do so through practices that condone dispossession in the name of economic and political security.
Author |
: Campbell Craig |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2020-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674247345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674247345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis America’s Cold War by : Campbell Craig
“A creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long struggle against the Soviet Union.” —Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy “Craig and Logevall remind us that American foreign policy is decided as much by domestic pressures as external threats. America’s Cold War is history at its provocative best.” —Mark Atwood Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. America prevailed, but only after fifty years of grim international struggle, costly wars in Korea and Vietnam, trillions of dollars in military spending, and decades of nuclear showdowns. Was all of that necessary? In this new edition of their landmark history, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall engage with recent scholarship on the late Cold War, including the Reagan and Bush administrations and the collapse of the Soviet regime, and expand their discussion of the nuclear revolution and origins of the Vietnam War. Yet they maintain their original argument: that America’s response to a very real Soviet threat gave rise to a military and political system in Washington that is addicted to insecurity and the endless pursuit of enemies to destroy. America’s Cold War speaks vividly to debates about forever wars and threat inflation at the center of American politics today.
Author |
: Joseph S. Tuman |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2003-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0761927654 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780761927655 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Communicating Terror by : Joseph S. Tuman
Communicating Terror: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism argues that the meaning of terrorism is socially constructed and suggests a new definition of terrorism, chiefly as a process of communication between terrorists and multiple target audiences. Concise yet comprehensive, this up-to-date text examines how acts of "terrorism" create rhetorical acts: What messages, persuasive meanings, symbols, do acts of terrorism generate and communicate to the world at large? These rhetorical components include definitions and labels, symbolism in terrorism, public oratory about terrorism, and the relationship between terror and media. This book examines diverse acts of terrorism, not just September 11th or recent events in the Middle East, to show the history and various effects of these acts as a medium for communication. This unique communication perspective shows how the rhetoric of terrorism is truly a war of words, symbols, and meanings.
Author |
: Adam Seth Levine |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2017-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691176246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691176248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Insecurity by : Adam Seth Levine
Why economic insecurity spurs so little collective political action Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn't happen, and the resulting inaction carries consequences for political debates and public policy. Moving beyond previously studied barriers to political organization, American Insecurity sheds light on the public's inaction over economic insecurities by showing that the rhetoric surrounding these issues is actually self-undermining. By their nature, the very arguments intended to mobilize individuals—asking them to devote money or time to politics—remind citizens of their economic fears and personal constraints, leading to undermobilization and nonparticipation. Adam Seth Levine explains why the set of people who become politically active on financial insecurity issues is therefore quite narrow. When money is needed, only those who care about the issues but are not personally affected become involved. When time is needed, participation is limited to those not personally affected or those who are personally affected but outside of the labor force with time to spare. The latter explains why it is relatively easy to mobilize retirees on topics that reflect personal financial concerns, such as Social Security and Medicare. In general, however, when political representation requires a large group to make their case, economic insecurity threats are uniquely disadvantaged. Scrutinizing the foundations of political behavior, American Insecurity offers a new perspective on collective participation.
Author |
: George Kararach |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367721058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367721053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disruptions and Rhetoric in African Development Policy by : George Kararach
Development as disruptions - a reconstruction of the theory and practice -- Social discontent as search for development: from colonialism to independence -- Natural resources, climate change and poor beneficiation - the potential for a curse -- Trade versus aid: economics, politics, and dilemmas in development cooperation -- Food insecurity and agricultural stagnation -- Demography and migration - seeking out the dividends -- Pandemics and diseases as forces of dislocation - a post-COVID-19 view -- Conflict, drugs and criminal upheavals in African development -- Innovation, AI and technology as handmaiden of development.
Author |
: Michael J. Graetz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674980884 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674980883 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wolf at the Door by : Michael J. Graetz
The acclaimed authors of Death by a Thousand Cuts argue that Americans care less about inequality than about their own insecurity. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro propose realistic policies and strategies to make lives and communities more secure. This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and deregulation. Others on the left rage against the top 1 percent and demand wholesale economic change. Voices on both sides line up against globalization: restrict trade to protect jobs. In The Wolf at the Door, two leading political analysts argue that these views are badly mistaken. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro focus on what really worries people: not what the rich are making but rather their own insecurity and that of people close to them. Americans are concerned about losing what they have, whether jobs, status, or safe communities. They fear the wolf at the door. The solution is not protectionism or class warfare but a return to the hard work of building coalitions around realistic goals and pursuing them doggedly through the political system. This, Graetz and Shapiro explain, is how earlier reformers achieved meaningful changes, from the abolition of the slave trade to civil rights legislation. The authors make substantial recommendations for increasing jobs, improving wages, protecting families suffering from unemployment, and providing better health insurance and child care, and they guide us through the strategies needed to enact change. These are achievable reforms that would make Americans more secure. The Wolf at the Door is one of those rare books that not only diagnose our problems but also show us how we can address them.