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What does it mean to be ‘vulnerable’? Exploring the rise of ‘vulnerability’ as an organising concept in migration detention, integration, public health, national security and social policy, this volume reveals the blurring of welfare state logics with national security ends. Governments and international agencies use the language of vulnerability to identify needy constituents and communities, but also to frame that need as potentially dangerous. Using international case studies this book shows how vulnerability governance permeates policy sectors – transforming the methods used to govern, problematise and resolve – bringing questions of risk management and security into social policy, but simultaneously brings social policy sectors into counterterrorism delivery. The combination of welfare state and security logics brings interventions deeper into societies, securitising communities and individuals on account of their needs, governing the social through security politics.
Price: £90.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
27 June 2023
ISBN: 9781526169372
Format: Hardback
An introduction to vulnerability: merging social policy with the national security state – Charlotte Heath-KellyPart I: From care to risk assessment and national security1 Shifting notions of vulnerability and learning in Swedish prevention policy – Randi Gressgård and Vanja Lozic2 Anti-immigrant politics and vulnerability’s conceptual multiplicity – Andrew C. Fletcher and Ali Fuat Birol3 Governing vulnerability: mental distress, neoliberalism and COVID-19 - Jana Fey4 Who is vulnerable, the worker or the state? Psychiatric debates on trauma and welfare in Germany, 1871–1914 – Laura Jung5 Counterterrorism and psychiatry: re-bordering vulnerability and securitisation in UK public protection – Charlotte Heath-KellyPart II: The reframing of national security around careIntroducing Part II – Barbara Gruber6 Governing vulnerability through case management: from crime to radicalization prevention in the Netherlands – Barbara Gruber7 Local rationalizations of radicalization: an analysis of Danish and Swedish municipal policies – Robin Andersson Malmros and Jennie Sivenbring8 The 'vulnerability' of Lebanon: reimagining the ‘failing state’ problem through the international PVE agenda – Jan Daniel9 Prevention politics in non-western contexts: training imams in post-revolutionary Tunisia – Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu10 ‘Ontological’ (in)security under postcolonial conditions: countering violent extremism in Nigeria – Akinyemi Oyawale11 When democracy is deemed vulnerable: preventing far-right extremism by curbing Roma ‘criminality and social pathologies’ in the Czech Republic – Sadi ShanaahEpilogue: from security to ‘care’, vulnerability to resistance – Hil AkedIndex