The War on Terror and the Normalisation of Urban Security by Jon Coaffee

Author:Jon Coaffee [Coaffee, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Terrorism, General
ISBN: 9780429867279
Google: WdBDEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 57994206
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

The everyday impacts of security-driven resiliency

Governance architectures for civil contingencies and security that evolved in the early twenty-first century were driven by the ongoing terrorist threat and primarily developed to build up a consistent degree of resilience across a nation, to anticipate and prepare for a variety of threats faced. Whilst this enabled emergency planning, national security and counter-terrorism to enjoy unprecedented funding and profile at all scales, it was to have significant implications for everyday urban life; from the governance of control to institutional and personal responsibilisation in anticipation of inevitable attack. This means returning to the question urban historian Lewis Mumford raised in his discussion of the origins of war and the city, as to whether there is an inherent pathology within ‘dreams’ of security which leads inevitably to violence (see Chapter 1).

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