Risk and the War on Terror

Louise Amoore is Lecturer in Political Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.Marieke de Goede is Senior Lecturer at the Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

"This anthology's broad coverage of the relationship of risk to the war on terror's proliferation of surveillance is extraordinary. The work of this excellent group of scholars is innovative and compelling." - Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii, USA"Three key themes run through this excellent book, all of which present central challenges to the concept of a liberal democracy. These are: the exponential increase in state access to personal data; the use of that data as a tool for risk analysis by the state and, thirdly, the entry of the precautionary principle (widely supported in environment circles) into policing and counter-terrorism policy fields. The essays included in this volume cover the field fully and intelligently. This book provides an outstanding contribution to literature on the changing nature of liberal governance in the 21st century. It should be required reading for policy makers and analysts as well as all politics students." - Elspeth Guild, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands"This book is a wonderfully thought-provoking and insightful analysis of the genesis and negative effects of risk technologies that have been deployed in connection with the War on Terror and the links of these to other large-scale social phenomena such as globalization. In highlighting these negative effects, the book is sometimes frightening, while also emphasizing the failures, gaps and political resistance that are evident in the deployment of these risk technologies. Risk and the War on Terror is filled with theoretically and empirically fascinating new contributions to our understanding of this crucially important topic." - Tony Porter, McMaster University, Canada

• Foreword: Rusing Risk Bill Maurer. Introduction: Governing by Risk in the War on Terror Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede Part 1: Risk, Precaution, Governance 1. Taming the Future: The Dispositif of Risk in the War on Terror Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster 2. Spatial Imaginaries: Economic Globalisation and the War on Terror Wendy Larner 3. The State of Preemption: Managing Terrorism Risk through Counter-Law Richard V. Ericson Part 2: Crime, Deviance, Exception 4. Choosing our Wars, Transforming Governance: Cancer, Crime, and Terror Jonathan Simon 5. Risk, Preemption and Exception in the War on Terrorist Financing Marieke de Goede 6. Consulting, Culture, the Camp: On the Economies of the Exception Louise Amoore Part 3: Biopolitics, Biometrics, Borders 7. Fast Capitalism/Slow Terror: Cushy Cosmopolitanism and its Extraordinary Others Matthew Sparke 8. Putting the Migration-Security Complex in its Place William Walters 9. Embodying Risk: Using Biometrics to Protect the Borders Charlotte Epstein Part 4: Risk, Tactics, Resistances 10. Border Hacks: The Risks of Tactical Media Rita Raley 11. Subverting Discourses of Risk in the War on Terror Susan Bibler Coutin 12. Conclusion: Risk and Imagination in the War on Terror Mark B. Salter