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Mark Neocleous - Critique of Security - 9780748633296 - V9780748633296
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Critique of Security

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Description for Critique of Security Paperback. Critique of Security brings together very diverse discussions about security in order to sustain a genuine critique of security and its study. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; JWK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
'Challenging and accessible, this book opens up new political questions as it describes the new ways in which life has become more comprehensively securitised.' Professor Michael Dillon, Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University The contemporary political imagination and social landscape are saturated by the idea of security and thoughts of insecurity. This saturation has been accompanied by the emergence of a minor industry generating ideas about how to define and redefine security, how to defend and improve it, how to widen and deepen it, how to civilise and democratise it. In this book Mark Neocleous takes an entirely different approach ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748633296
SKU
V9780748633296
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About Mark Neocleous
Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, and a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical Philosophy. His previous books include The Monstrous and the Dead (2005), Imagining the State (2003), The Fabrication of Social Order (2000), Fascism (1997) and Administering Civil Society (1996).

Reviews for Critique of Security
'There is no more urgent question than that of why and how western political systems have become saturated by the concern for security. Yet the more governments pursue security the more they subvert the freedoms they claim to secure. The more also they render the world dangerous. Mark Neocleous is amongst the most acute observers of this lethal paradox. Returning ... Read more

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