Security expertise practice, power, responsibility
This volume brings together scholars from different fields to explore the power, consequences and everyday practices of security expertise. Expertise mediates between different forms of knowledge: scientific and technological, legal, economic and political knowledge. This book offers the first syste...
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London
Routledge
2015
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| Series: | PRIO new security studies
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Security expertise: an introduction
- 2. What is expertise? Technical knowledge and political judgement
- 3. What is security expertise? From the sociology of professions to the analysis of networks of expertise
- 4. In defence of security
- 5. The history and social structure of security studies as a practico-academic field
- 6. Think tanks in security and international affairs
- 7. Producing knowledge for the military: experts and amateurs in the national security community
- 8. Contesting human security expertise: technical practices in reconfiguring international security
- 9. Problematic knowledge: how 'terrorism' resists expertise
- 10. On wolves, squirrels and pandas: the characters of strategy experts
- 11. On how to be a collective intellectual: critical terrorism studies and the countering of hegemonic discourse
- 12. Ethics, expertise and human terrain
- 13. Away from the heart of darkness: transparency and regulating the relationships between security experts and security sectors