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Vulnerability : governing the social through security politics

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概要 What does it mean to be 'vulnerable'? Exploring the rise of 'vulnerability' as an organising concept in migration detention, integration, public health, national security and social policy, this volum...e reveals the blurring of welfare state logics with national security ends. Governments and international agencies use the language of vulnerability to identify needy constituents and communities, but also to frame that need as potentially dangerous. Using international case studies this book shows how vulnerability governance permeates policy sectors - transforming the methods used to govern, problematise and resolve - bringing questions of risk management and security into social policy, but simultaneously brings social policy sectors into counterterrorism delivery. The combination of welfare state and security logics brings interventions deeper into societies, securitising communities and individuals on account of their needs, governing the social through security politics.
"Social policy, welfare administration and national security have all witnessed the spectacular rise of 'vulnerability' as an organising concept. 'Vulnerability governance' identifies persons, communities and even nations which require psycho-social and developmental assistance to prevent them from becoming dangerous. 'Governing through vulnerability' combines the logics and practices of both the welfare state and the national security state - enabling corrective interventions to delve further and deeper into society. This volume explores the use of 'vulnerability governance' across Europe, North America, North and Western Africa, and the Middle East. Contributors explore how migration detention centres, psychiatric diagnosis, public health campaigns, integration programs and counter-extremism all deploy the language of vulnerability to undertake corrective, securitised interventions at the local level. When defining their subjects as 'vulnerable', these programs do not simply provide care and support. Rather, they frame communities through a narrative of 'needy now, but potentially dangerous later' - securitising them as a future risk to society. Socio-economic support is used to aid the vulnerable group or individual, but only according to the level of threat they pose to the world around them. Vulnerability governance demonstrates the complex co-interaction of welfare and security logics in contemporary global politics. This book debates whether this is an effect of neoliberal welfare transformation, which reserves welfare for those who pose a threat to society, or whether the original welfare states were similarly permeated with this security agenda. Vulnerability affects the governance of the social through security politics, but also integrates social policy sectors within counterterrorism." --Back cover.
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目次 An introduction to vulnerability: merging social policy with the national security state
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Part I: From care to risk assessment and national security
1. Shifting notions of vulnerability and learning in Swedish prevention policy
Randi Gressgård and Vanja Lozic - 2. Anti-immigrant politics and vulnerability's conceptual multiplicity
Andrew C. Fletcher and Ali Fuat Birol
3. Governing vulnerability: mental distress, neoliberalism and COVID-19
Jana Fey
4. Who is vulnerable, the worker or the state? Psychiatric debates on trauma and welfare in Germany, 1871-1914
Laura Jung
5. Counterterrorism and psychiatry: re-bordering vulnerability and securitisation in UK public protection
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Part II: The reframing of national security around care
Introducing Part II
Barbara Gruber - 6. Governing vulnerability through case management: from crime to radicalization prevention in the Netherlands
Barbara Gruber
7. Local rationalizations of radicalization: an analysis of Danish and Swedish municipal policies
Robin Andersson Malmros and Jennie Sivenbring
8. The 'vulnerability' of Lebanon: reimagining the 'failing state' problem through the international PVE agenda
Jan Daniel
9. Prevention politics in non-western contexts: training imams in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu
10. 'Ontological' (in)security under postcolonial conditions: countering violent extremism in Nigeria
Akinyemi Oyawale
11. When democracy is deemed vulnerable: preventing far-right extremism by curbing Roma 'criminality and social pathologies' in the Czech Republic
Sadi Shanaah
Epilogue: From security to 'care', vulnerability to resistance
Hil Aked - Index.
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