{"product_id":"liberal-terror-hardback-9780745665313","title":"Liberal Terror (Hardback) 9780745665313","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiberal Terror\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrad Evans (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745665313, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 February 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Makes an important macro-theoretical contribution to the micro-level ethnographies of security  conducted in geography.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntipode\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In this brilliant book, Brad Evans offers a forceful, cogent, and eye-opening analysis of the complex forces shaping the new normal of terror and security, and provides the theoretical and political tools to challenge it. \u003ci\u003eLiberal Terror\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading for everyone concerned about both the changing nature and fate of politics today.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHenry Giroux, Professor of Global Media Networks, McMaster University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Liberal interventionism is driven by imaginaries of fear and uncertainty. With its desperate quest to control ungoverned space and eliminate autonomy in order to secure the global bio-sphere, this interventionism now engulfs us all. Brad Evans has written a superb and vital critique which is highly original and compelling. It demands our attention.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMark Duffield, University of Bristol\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A tour de force. Page after page, the rhetorical motions of the text are disruptive, insightful and compelling. A counter-effectuation of the prevailing, neo-liberal political conceits in both academic and governmental spaces, its contributions to security analysis, critical methods, and political thinking in general will have lasting effects.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii, Manoa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the 21st Century security terrain. It illustrates with sophisticated critical poise the ethical and political stakes of the contemporary attempts at securing planetary life. In doing so, the need to think beyond the failures of liberal humanism becomes altogether more urgent and pressing.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley, New School for Social Research\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSecurity is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the  most secure of  times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the  threat of another  devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or  unexpected catastrophe,  anxieties and fears define the global  political age. While liberal governments  and security agencies have  responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography  of interconnected  planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything  has  rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox  of  contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our  imaginaries  of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to  chance. For everything  has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Such  is the emerging state of terror  normality we find ourselves in today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis  illuminating book by Brad  Evans provides a critical evaluation of the  wide ranging terrors which are  deemed threatening to advanced liberal  societies. Moving beyond the assumption  that liberalism is integral to  the realisation of perpetual peace, human  progress, and political  emancipation on a planetary scale, it exposes how  liberal security  regimes are shaped by a complex life-centric rationality which  directly  undermines any claims to universal justice and co-habitation. Through   an incisive and philosophically enriched critique of the contemporary  liberal  practices of making life more secure, Evans forces us to  confront the question  of what it means to live politically as we  navigate through the dangerous  uncertainty of the 21st Century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Imaginaries of Threat 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Liberal Security 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Potentialities 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 On Divine Power 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A New Leviathan 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Event Horizon 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 241\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407330308376,"sku":"9780745665313","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745665313.jpg?v=1784162533","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/liberal-terror-hardback-9780745665313","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}