Titlebook: Counter-Terrorism Technologies; A Critical Assessmen Peter Lehr Book 2019 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 201

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The Quest for Silver Bullets: Implications for Our Construction of Citizenship that new technologies, especially security-related technologies, change our view of what it means to be a citizen. In particular, I draw on the ‘Agency of Things’ as well as the ‘Internet of Things’ to highlight the relevance of technology in that regard. Since it is not only about technology per s

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Archipelagos of Fear: CT Technology and the Securitisation of Everyday Lifehat a ‘discourse of fear’ enables a process that turns ever more of our public spaces into ‘safe spaces’ which are essentially ‘quasi-public’ only?– quasi-public in the sense that they can be accessed only by those citizens fortunate enough to have the right credentials, thus excluding or ‘othering’

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Undemocratic Means: The Rise of the Surveillance Stateliberal or democratic states. In this chapter, I show where this ‘what if’ journey towards ever more safety and security could eventually lead by discussing the Chinese government’s current plans to roll out a ‘Social Credit Score’ system that assigns each Chinese citizen an individual ‘social score

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Democracy Transfigured: The Dawn of the ‘Umpire State’ requires a look at actors other than the state as well?– actors that are per definition non-state actors but who, in some regard, act like quasi-state actors. In this chapter, I assess these private actors in a critical perspective to see how they influence our daily lives. My main argument, follow

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Outlook: The Need for ‘Critical’ Critical Infrastructure Protection Studies the importance of the art of critical infrastructure protection (CIP) as an effort to ‘control the uncontrollable’. Secondly, I highlight the urgent need of a ‘critical’ critical infrastructure protection approach that steers away from the solely technocratic approach chosen so far. And thirdly, I

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Consequences: The Urban Space as a (Limited) Battlespaceat became obvious: terrorists act, counter-terrorists react?– and so do politicians and academics. I argue that an array of various solutions has been offered to break through this cycle?– amongst them technology as the proverbial ‘silver bullet’.

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