Freedom of Security

Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism

AvColleen Bell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

From Guantánamo Bay to the war in Iraq, post-9/11 security measures have sparked fears that the West is violating the very civil rights and freedoms it claims to protect. This debate is focused on the United States, but how have the politics of security influenced the commitment to freedom in other liberal democracies?Colleen Bell argues that Canada's counter-terrorism practices should not be framed as a departure from liberal governance in which freedom is traded for security but rather as a restructuring of modalities of governance through the framework of security. Addressing issues such as security certificates, the war in Afghanistan, and the detainment and torture of Abdullah Almalki in Syria, Bell demonstrates that security measures are not simply eroding civil liberties, they are also fundamentally reshaping ideas and practices of freedom. This trenchant examination of Canada's "War on Terror" exposes how the logic and practices of security are increasingly coming to define our rights and freedoms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-16
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Law and Society
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774818254

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Colleen Bell is a lecturer in international politics in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London.

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[Bell] pursues her thinking uncompromisingly and shares her research with an eloquence rare in academic treatises ... she invites us to think anew about an important aspect of contemporary political life. Security practices are now so imbedded in our ideas of freedom that we are unable to disengage from them. We are no longer able to fully appreciate how security intrudes in our lives as we travel, play, work or participate in the political process ... by forcing us to confront these unattractive facts and to recognize just how insidious security has become, Bell does her readers a considerable service. - Nathalie Des Rosiers (Literary Review of Canada)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Relations of Freedom, Relations of Security1 Opting In: Precautionary Engagement as National Security Strategy2 The Socio-Legal Paradox of Freedom: Security Certificates and the Politics of Exception3 Interventionary Designs: The Liberal Way of War in Afghanistan4 Sovereignty and Refusal: The Violent Limits of Liberal RightsConclusion: Freedom beyond SecurityNotesReferencesIndex