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Worst-case Scenario: Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime

Worst-case Scenario: Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime

by StuartPrice (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime - the worst-case scenario. This consists of the projection of a significant material threat, made by an authoritative or executive power, used to bolster the security agenda of the neo-liberal state. This in turn has altered the conduct of military and police operations, which are increasingly directed against any substantial expression of dissent. Using a wide range of official sources and case studies, from 9/11 to the Stockwell shooting, Price analyses the paramilitary, political, economic and cultural manoeuvres of the security regime as it attempts to reproduce a 'command structure' within civil society. In doing so, he demonstrates that, unlike the openly totalitarian states of the past, bureaucratic rule is favoured over charismatic leadership, and the ostentatious display of coercive authority is characterised as a temporary measure. It is, he argues, a process that must be recognised and resisted.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Published: 09 Jun 2011
ISBN 10: 1848135300
ISBN 13: 9781848135307

Media Reviews
'Stuart Price's bracing new book alerts us to the way that the contemporary security state pervades daily life. This is both a very alarming and a very scholarly work.' Toby Miller, author of 'Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention' 'Insightful and engaging, Stuart Price's book provides a critical analysis of the myths and mechanisms associated with the security regime set up to counter terrorism.' Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, University of Westminster, London 'Stuart Price again brings his clever and critical eye to a consideration of so-called emergency planning routines, providing a vital corrective to the assumption that these practices represent a straightforward response to potential threats. Using a wide range of case-studies, he shows how the intelligence community attempt to create discrete loci of power which avoid democratic oversight. This book will be important reading for those of us interested in the ways in which the relationship between state and society continue to evolve, not always in progressive directions.' Karen Ross, Professor of Media and Public Communication, University of Liverpool
Author Bio
Stuart Price is reader in media discourse and principal lecturer in media, film and journalism at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of 'Brute Reality' (2010), 'Discourse Power Address' (2007), and a number of other books on media and communication theory. He produced one of the few academic analyses of the Stockwell shooting, for Boehmer and Morton's 'Terror and the Postcolonial' (2010).