TY - JOUR
T1 - Governing insecurity
T2 - contingency planning, protection, resilience
AU - Lentzos, Filippa
AU - Rose, Nikolas
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - How should we understand the politics of security today? This article addresses this question from one particular perspective, that of 'biosecurity'. It examines contemporary strategies for managing biorisks in three European states: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. We suggest that the framing of threat and response differs, even within Europe, and that one can identify three different configurations: contingency planning, protection and resilience. Each of these embodies a significantly different way of reconciling fundamental imperatives for those who would govern a liberal society today - the imperative of freedom and the imperative of security.
AB - How should we understand the politics of security today? This article addresses this question from one particular perspective, that of 'biosecurity'. It examines contemporary strategies for managing biorisks in three European states: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. We suggest that the framing of threat and response differs, even within Europe, and that one can identify three different configurations: contingency planning, protection and resilience. Each of these embodies a significantly different way of reconciling fundamental imperatives for those who would govern a liberal society today - the imperative of freedom and the imperative of security.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349742422&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03085140902786611
DO - 10.1080/03085140902786611
M3 - Article
SN - 1469-5766
VL - 38
SP - 230
EP - 254
JO - ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
JF - ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
IS - 2
M1 - n/a
ER -