Security After the Unthinkable
Terror and Disenchantment in Norway
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2024
296 pages
978-1-5261-6635-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book builds a theoretical perspective for explaining what security remains after the security event. It studies in detail the evolution of security thinking before, during and after the 2011 terrorist attack in Utoya and Oslo, Norway, tracking the political discourse and the institutional reactions in order to form a theory of 'terror and disenchantment'. It develops a general theory of security that contributes to ongoing debates on non-military security, asymmetric warfare, ontological security and human security. It revisits the nature of terrorism, the sense of its practice and re-conceptualises the way practice of counter- and anti-terrorism are embedded in social, cultural and national consciousness. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-6635-7 (9781526166357)
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Person
J. Peter Burgess is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris -- .
Content
Introduction
Part I: Theory of disenchantment
1. Terror and disenchantment
2. The enchantment of security
3. The invention of vulnerability
4. Our coming security
Part II: Making security-sense of Oslo/Utoya
5. 22 July 2011: Event, meaning and affect
6. The report of the 22/7 Commission
7. There is no alternative to security
8. Giving and taking responsibility for terrorism
After thought -- .
Part I: Theory of disenchantment
1. Terror and disenchantment
2. The enchantment of security
3. The invention of vulnerability
4. Our coming security
Part II: Making security-sense of Oslo/Utoya
5. 22 July 2011: Event, meaning and affect
6. The report of the 22/7 Commission
7. There is no alternative to security
8. Giving and taking responsibility for terrorism
After thought -- .
