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Security in Crisis seeks to provide an analysis of the complex combinations of political and technological understandings entailed in what it terms as 'planetary crisis management'.
List of contents
- Note on sources
- Abbreviations/Acronyms
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Crisis, Critique, and International Insecurity
- 3: From Global Uncertainties to Planetary Insecurities
- 4: Bounding Planetary Insecurities
- 5: Thinking through Crisis Management
- 6: Geoengineering and the Technopolitics of Planetary Crisis Management
- 7: Planetary Crisis at the Limits of Sociotechnical Imagination
- 8: Return to the Planetary Technosphere
- 9: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Columba Peoples is Associate Professor in in International Relations in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, where he researches and teaches on world politics and critical security studies. He is the author of the book Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence: Technology, Security and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and, with Nick Vaughan-Williams, is co-author of three editions of Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2010, 2015, 2021). His peer-reviewed journal articles have appeared in, among others, Security Dialogue, Journal of International Political Theory, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Review of International Studies, and Globalizations.
Summary
Security in Crisis seeks to provide an analysis of the complex combinations of political and technological understandings entailed in what it terms as 'planetary crisis management'.
