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Dissects the post 9/11 symbiosis between the state and private security firms, and its basis: the conviction that uncertainties-devastation by terrorist attack, financial market collapse-must be discerned and preempted, however unlikely they may be.

International relations -- Risk assessment. --- National security -- Technological innovations. --- Terrorism -- Prevention -- Technological innovations. --- International relations --- National security --- Terrorism --- Law, Politics & Government --- International Relations --- Risk assessment --- Technological innovations --- Prevention --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- Military policy --- Government policy

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This exciting book provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalization that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalization as it is expressed in the restructuring of work. Rejecting conventional explanations of globalization as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, this book advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany, to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, the author examines how globalization is interpreted and experienced in everyday life. Contestation, she argues, is about more than just direct protests and resistances. It has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring. This book offers students and scholars of international political economy, sociology and industrial relations an innovative framework for the analysis of globalisation and the restructuring of work.

International economic integration --- Globalization --- Work --- economics --- globalization --- politics --- europe --- Germany --- Industrial relations --- Labour economics --- Multinational corporation --- Neoliberalism --- Social change --- Social aspects.

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"In Cloud Ethics Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Conceptualizing algorithms as ethicopolitical entities that are entangled with the data attributes of people, Amoore outlines how algorithms give incomplete accounts of themselves, learn through relationships with human practices, and exist in the world in ways that exceed their source code. In these ways, algorithms and their relations to people cannot be understood by simply examining their code, nor can ethics be encoded into algorithms. Instead, Amoore locates the ethical responsibility of algorithms in the conditions of partiality and opacity that haunt both human and algorithmic decisions. To this end, she proposes what she calls cloud ethics--an approach to holding algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate."--

Cloud computing --- Decision making --- Algorithms --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- algorhythmic thinking. --- machine learning.

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This exciting book provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalization that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalization as it is expressed in the restructuring of work. Rejecting conventional explanations of globalization as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, this book advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany, to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, the author examines how globalization is interpreted and experienced in everyday life. Contestation, she argues, is about more than just direct protests and resistances. It has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring. This book offers students and scholars of international political economy, sociology and industrial relations an innovative framework for the analysis of globalisation and the restructuring of work.

International economic integration --- Globalization --- Work --- Social aspects. --- economics --- globalization --- politics --- europe --- Germany --- Industrial relations --- Labour economics --- Multinational corporation --- Neoliberalism --- Social change

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This book offers the first comprehensive and critical investigation of the specific modes of risk calculation that are emerging in the so-called War on Terror.Risk and the War on Terror offers an interdisciplinary set of contributions which debate and analyze both the empirical manifestations of risk in the War on Terror and their theoretical implications. From border controls and biometrics to financial targeting and policing practice, the imperative to deploy public and private data in order to ‘connect the dots’ of terrorism risk raises important questions for social scientists and practitioners alike.How are risk technologies redeployed from commercial, environmental and policing domains to the domain of the War on Terror?How can the invocation of risk in the War on Terror be understood conceptually?Do these moves embody transformations from sovereignty to governmentality; from discipline to risk; from geopolitics to biopolitics?What are the implications of such moves for the populations that come to be designated as ‘risky’ or ‘at risk’?Where are the gaps, ambiguities and potential resistances to these practices?In contrast with previous historical moments of risk measurement, governing by risk in the War on Terror has taken on a distinctive orientation to an uncertain future. This book will be of strong interest to students and researchers of international studies, political science, geography, legal studies, criminology and sociology.

Terrorism --- Privacy, Right of --- Ports of entry --- Prevention --- Risk assessment --- Security measures --- Terrorism risk assessment --- Privacy, Right of. --- 811 Filosofie --- 852 Internationale conflicten --- Invasion of privacy --- Right of privacy --- Civil rights --- Libel and slander --- Personality (Law) --- Press law --- Computer crimes --- Confidential communications --- Data protection --- Right to be forgotten --- Secrecy --- Anti-terrorism --- Antiterrorism --- Counter-terrorism --- Counterterrorism --- Prevention. --- Law and legislation --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Terrorism - United States - Prevention --- Terrorism - Risk assessment - United States --- Privacy, Right of - United States --- Ports of entry - Security measures - United States --- Terrorism - Prevention