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An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room. Yet, they both demonstrate dynamics of the interplay between security and space. This book focuses on the infrastructures of security, considering locations as varied as public entertainment venues to border walls to blast-proof bedrooms. Around the world, experts, organizations, and governments are managing societies in the name of security, while scholars and commentators are writing about surveillance, state violence, and new technologies. Yet in spite of the growing emphasis on security, few truly consider the spatial dimensions of security, and particularly how the relationship between space and security varies across cultures. This volume explores spaces of security not only by attending to how security is produced by and in spaces, but also by emphasizing the ways in which it is constructed in the contemporary landscape. The book explores diverse contexts ranging from biometrics in India to counterterrorism in East Africa to border security in Argentina. The ethnographic studies demonstrate the power of a spatial lens to highlight aspects of security that otherwise remain hidden, while also adding clarity to an elusive and dangerous way of managing the world.
Internal security --- Security sector --- Social aspects --- Guam. --- India. --- Israel. --- Kenya. --- Nairobi. --- Romania. --- Social Security. --- South Africa. --- War on Drugs. --- War on Terror. --- anthropology. --- architecture. --- assemblage. --- astrogeopolitics. --- biometric state. --- borderization. --- counterterrorism. --- critical events. --- emergency. --- gated communities. --- geopolitics. --- governance. --- health insurance. --- housing. --- insecurity. --- local environment. --- mamad. --- military maps. --- overseas bases. --- public security. --- recursiveness. --- residential space. --- routine. --- satellites. --- secret police. --- securitization. --- security regimes. --- security technology. --- security urbanism. --- surveillance. --- urban space.
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The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation--the epistemic, modal, and ontic. He argues that the prevailing view (a version of the epistemic conception) is untenable and that the modal conception is scientifically out-dated. Significantly revising aspects of his earlier work, he defends a causal/mechanical theory that is a version of the ontic conception. Professor Salmon's theory furnishes a robust argument for scientific realism akin to the argument that convinced twentieth-century physical scientists of the existence of atoms and molecules. To do justice to such notions as irreducibly statistical laws and statistical explanation, he offers a novel account of physical randomness. The transition from the "reviewed view" of scientific explanation (that explanations are arguments) to the causal/mechanical model requires fundamental rethinking of basic explanatory concepts.
Science --- Sciences --- Philosophy. --- Methodology. --- Philosophie --- Méthodologie --- Philosophy --- Methodology --- -Science --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- -Methodology --- Méthodologie --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Scientific method --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Aristotle. --- Bohr, Niels. --- Bromberger, Sylvain. --- Compton scattering. --- Davisson-Germer experiment. --- Humean problems. --- Jackson, Reggie. --- King, John L. --- Laplacian explanation. --- action-by-contact. --- aleatory explanation. --- alpha radiation. --- behaviorism. --- bone, worked. --- cancer. --- carriage accident. --- causal relation. --- collective (von Mises). --- contrast class. --- disjunctive dilution. --- effective calculability. --- energeticism. --- epidemiology. --- expectation. --- explanans-partition. --- explanans. --- first signal, light as. --- forecast, reliable. --- gambling system. --- gravitational radiation. --- high probability requirement. --- homogeneity. --- ignorance. --- improbable event. --- inferential version. --- lambda-definability. --- leukemia. --- logical empiricism. --- magnifying glass. --- materialism. --- microphysical entities. --- microscope. --- mononucleosis. --- necessary connection. --- nonrandomness. --- operationism. --- pair production/annihilation. --- partial entailment. --- plausibility. --- presupposition. --- psychotherapy. --- quantum domain. --- recursiveness. --- Nauka --- metodologia. --- filozofia. --- Science - Philosophy --- Science - Methodology
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