Governing insecurity: contingency planning, protection, resilience

Лентзос, Филиппа; Rose, Nikolas

doi:10.1080/03085140902786611

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“…Instead, on Holling's (1973, 21) account, a resilience framework is put forward to change the nature of how "complex system" problems are approached, producing a shift from trying to predict the future to instead attempting to find ways to devise systems that "can absorb and accommodate future events in whatever unexpected form they may take". The framework is then ripe for use as an approach to crisis management which foregrounds the limits of predicative knowledge and emphasises the primacy of unexpected events (Walker and Cooper 2011, 147; see also Lentzos and Rose 2009). …”

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Learning to fail: resilience and the empty promise of financial literacy education

Clarke

2015

Consumption Markets & Culture

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Abstract:The requirement to build economic resilience in people has become a concern for the UK Government, regulators, and the financial services industry. Transposed to the realm of financial literacy education, the resilience doctrine performs particular effects in relation to the naturalisation and individualisation of financial market relations. At the same time, it tends to speak of the inevitability of market failures and crashes. I argue that based on these features the effect of the resilience doctrine is to mask the "empty promise" of financial literacy education programmes: the irreconcilable gap between the empowerment discourse surrounding what such agendas are meant to achieve for ordinary people and the latter's actual success in securing their security and wellbeing through financial markets. The paradoxical element of resilience talk is that it at once serves to further legitimise financial education attempts, while providing an opportune reason for failures judged even on its own terms.

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Section: Resilience In Financial Literacy Educationmentioning

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Learning to fail: resilience and the empty promise of financial literacy education

Clarke

2015

Consumption Markets & Culture

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“…The two largest countries in this study, France and the UK, are the most advanced in this respect. However, according to Lentzos and Rose (2009) they differ in their logic of health security preparedness with France taking a more 'contingency planning' route and the UK a more 'resilience building'. Some of the other plans come close to what Lentzos and Rose (2009) name 'protection', which is a more public health-oriented and traditional approach.…”

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Framing post-pandemic preparedness: Comparing eight European plans

Holmberg

Lundgren

2016

Global Public Health

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Framing has previously been studied in the field of pandemic preparedness and global health governance and influenza pandemics have usually been framed in terms of security and evidence-based medicine on a global scale. This paper is based on the pandemic preparedness plans, published after 2009, from eight European countries. We study how pandemic preparedness is framed and how pandemic influenza in general is narrated in the plans. All plans contain references to 'uncertainty', 'pandemic phases', 'risk management', 'vulnerability' and 'surveillance'. These themes were all framed differently in the studied plans. The preparedness plans in the member states diverge in ways that will challenge the ambition of the European Union to make the pandemic preparedness plans interoperable and to co-ordinate the member states during future pandemics. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In the notorious form of quarantine, systematic efforts to isolate potential carriers of infectious germs so as to prevent pandemics and protect populations have been at the heart of security measures mobilized by the state as a drastic means to maintain its sovereignty and control its borders (Baldwin, 1999). In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks and the anthrax scare of 2001, militarized logics for dealing with infectious disease have indubitably become more influential than ever before in the United States (Cooper, 2006;Lentzos, 2006;Dillon and Lobo-Guerrero, 2008;Lakoff and Collier, 2008;Lentzos and Rose, 2009). In this article, my concern, however, is not primarily with the formation of an ever-tighter alliance between public health, national security and international commerce in the United States but rather with the peculiar way in which the new set of priorities were articulated and authorized.…”

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Public prophylaxis: Pandemic influenza, pharmaceutical prevention and participatory governance

Caduff

2010

BioSocieties

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In this article, I explore recent discussions among American public health professionals over how to protect the health of the nation in a state of emergency. My focus is specifically on questions of preventative strategy and population management, examining intensive debates around the prioritization of protective vaccine for pandemic influenza. Drawing on ethnographic research, I show how the mode of circulation, distribution and allocation of pandemic vaccine was gradually refashioned in the United States over the past 2 years. When government officials launched public engagement meetings reformulating in ethical terms the crucial question of how to dispense a scarce pharmaceutical resource in a public health emergency, a distinctive set of priorities emerged. My aim, in this article, is to examine this ethical refashioning and to interrogate the curious logics of public-ness that are increasingly embedded in a growing number of approaches of public health professionals. How are populations gathered into the fold of pharmaceutical prevention today?

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Governing insecurity: contingency planning, protection, resilience

Cited by 241 publications

References 14 publications

Learning to fail: resilience and the empty promise of financial literacy education

Learning to fail: resilience and the empty promise of financial literacy education

Framing post-pandemic preparedness: Comparing eight European plans

Public prophylaxis: Pandemic influenza, pharmaceutical prevention and participatory governance

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