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Vulnerability
Governing the social through security politics
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Barbara Gruber, Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Barbara Gruber
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Vulnerability
Governing the social through security politics
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Barbara Gruber, Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Barbara Gruber
About This Book
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 volume 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- An introduction to vulnerability: merging social policy with the national security state
- Part I: From care to risk assessment and national security
- Part II: The reframing of national security around care
- Epilogue: from security to ‘care’, vulnerability to resistance
- Index