Vulnerability : governing the social through security politics / edited by Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Barbara Gruber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heath-Kelly, Charlotte, editor.

Gruber, Barbara, editor.

European Research Council (ERC), Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Risk--Social aspects.

Risk.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Charlotte Heath-Kelly is Professor of Counterterrorism and Public Policy at the University of Warwick.

Barbara Gruber is Lecturer in International Relations and Security Studies at the University of Groningen.

Summary:

What does it mean to be ‘vulnerable’? Exploring the rise of ‘vulnerability’ as an organising concept in migration detention, integration, public health, national security and social policy, this volume reveals the blurring of welfare state logics with national security ends. Governments and international agencies use the language of vulnerability to identify needy constituents and communities, but also to frame that need as potentially dangerous. Using international case studies this book shows how vulnerability governance permeates policy sectors – transforming the methods used to govern, problematise and resolve – bringing questions of risk management and security into social policy, but simultaneously brings social policy sectors into counterterrorism delivery. The combination of welfare state and security logics brings interventions deeper into societies, securitising communities and individuals on account of their needs, governing the social through security politics.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of contributors

An introduction to vulnerability

Part I: From care to risk assessment and national security

1 Shifting notions of vulnerability and learning in Swedish prevention policy

2 Anti-immigrant politics and vulnerability’s conceptual multiplicity

3 Governing vulnerability

4 Who is vulnerable, the worker or the state? Psychiatric debates on trauma and welfare in Germany, 1871–1914

5 Counterterrorism and psychiatry

The reframing of national security around care

6 Governing vulnerability through case management

7 Local rationalisations of radicalisation

8 The ‘vulnerability’ of Lebanon

9 Prevention politics in non-Western contexts

10 ‘Ontological’ (in)security under post-colonial conditions

11 When democracy is deemed vulnerable

Epilogue

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526169389

152616938X

OCLC:

1388402314