Multi-centred governance and circuits of power in liberal modes of security

Edwards, Adam

doi:10.1080/17440572.2016.1179629

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“…In the EU there is no legal definition for food fraud. However, the European Commission establishes that food fraud refers to 'any suspected intentional action by businesses or individuals for the purpose of deceiving purchasers and gaining undue advantage therefrom, in violation of the rules referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 (the agri-food chain legislation)' 6 . The agri-food chain legislation, which entered into force in December 2019, broadens the scope of official controls on compliance with EU rules concerning not only the safety of foodstuffs and the integrity of food supply chains, but also includes animal and plant health, animal welfare and environmental issues.…”

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Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy

Lord

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Davies

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Crime Law Soc Change

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Following major criminal cases in the food system, such as the Horsemeat and fipronil egg scandals, the phenomenon of food fraud has emerged as a priority concern for supranational (e.g. European Union) and domestic policymakers and regulatory authorities. Alongside this, there is increasing interest from academics working in both the natural and social sciences (but rarely together), where we see common and overlapping objectives but varied discourses and orientations. Consequently, various framings about the nature, organisation and control of food fraud have emerged, but it is not always clear which of these are more reflective of actual food fraud realities. This article analyses three key areas in the literature on food fraud where we see fault lines emerging: 1. food fraud research orientations; 2. food fraud detection and prevention (and the dehumanisation and decontextualisation associated with analytical testing); and, 3. food fraud regulation and criminalisation. We argue that these fault lines raise questions over the plausibility of knowledge on food frauds and in some cases produce specious arguments. This is significant for food fraud policy, strategy and operation, in particular in terms of how we generate expectations about the actual realities of food fraud and corresponding actions that are realised, and make knowledge practically adequate.

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“…For more in-depth insights into critical realism as a philosophy of social science see Bhaskar[4] and Sayer[2], and in relation to its application in criminology see Matthews[3,5] and Edwards[6].…”

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Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy

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Davies

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“…As with many others in this field, their work is missing the voice of the underdog, which requires more empirical labour than most are willing, or able, to pursue (Becker 1967). The arguments laid out do not do enough to recognise that the technologies of the securitisation agenda can be (but not always are) outmanoeuvred and even adopted by the criminal networks they seek to control (Edwards 2016). In this respect, they begin to fall into a "techno-centric rhetoric and narrative where urban and societal problems are rendered docile and amenable subjects to technology" (Wang 2017, p 378).…”

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Technology and organised crime in the smart city: an ethnographic study of the illicit drug trade

Berry

2018

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The term "smart city" has circulated across the developed world affecting urban development programmes and government strategies. Such "future cities" are heralded for their efficient networked technologies embedded within the fabric of urban environments that provide new means of social control for the state. These cities are envisioned as a technological fix for the many problems of modern city life, yet emerging technologies are not flawless and have vulnerabilities that can be manipulated by criminal actors. Even so, there is an interesting silence about the issues of security amongst the advocates of smart cities. Furthermore, there remains limited insight into the impact of the smart cities programme from criminologists, particularly in relation to hitherto prioritised threats of organised crime, notably the illicit drugs markets and associated harms. Those who have addressed the impact of emergent technologies have done so through critiques of governmental programmes, drawing largely upon insights from science and technology studies. A key absence in this, as well as the commercial and governmental literature, is the voice of actors involved in the networks that actually constitute threats to urban security, and how they perceive and use emerging technologies for illicit ends. This paper aims to augment but also challenge this treatment of the impact of emergent technologies, by switching the analytical focus towards the principal actor-networks that constitute these threats, with a particular focus on ICT (mobile technologies and internet drug sales). It uses data from a 5-year ethnography to demonstrate how ICT reconfigures and virtually extends illicit drug markets, whilst providing insights into the workings of drug markets of the future. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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“…ANT/STS applied to security studies investigate the processes through which the distinction between security and threats emerge as an outcome of these associations, refraining from making a priori assumptions about the ontology of (in)security or the actors involved in the process. The relational idea of power highlights how formal holders of power are not necessarily the ones that exert it: governors are always 'potential' in so far as they are dependent on all the other elements to actually govern (Edwards 2016). In this way, groups or networks of actors that cut across traditional social structures (i.e.…”

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Smart cities, social media platforms and security: online content regulation as a site of controversy and conflict

Poletti

Michieli

2018

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Smart, technologically managed city-regions are one of the main characteristics of the contemporary world. Since the attack to the Charlie Hebdo offices, city-regions and social media digital technologies have increasingly been changing the definition of 'territory of security' and 'security governance' . What are the characteristics of the security architecture created by the interaction of smart city-regions and digital technologies? Drawing from Actor-Network theory and Science and Technology Studies, we provide an empirical account of the shape of this new territory, by presenting a study of the controversy concerning security and social media in UK, the role of cities in this changed security space, and how social sciences can help better understand and respond to the opportunities and threats of smart cities. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. ReferencesAbrahamsen R, Leander A (eds) (2015) Routledge handbook of private security studies. Routledge, London Adamson FB (2016) Spaces of global security: beyond methodological nationalism. J Glob Secur Stud 1(1):19-35 Barry A (2001) Political machines: governing a technological society. Athlone, London Barry A (2013) The translation zone: between actor-network theory and international relations. Millenium J Int Stud 41(3):413-429 Baya-Laffite N (2017) Moving beyond the digitalised and natively digital divide? Mapping climate policy debates in multiple spaces. In: Paper presented at the 3rd international conference on public policy (ICPP3) June 28-30, 2017, Singapore

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Multi-centred governance and circuits of power in liberal modes of security

Cited by 14 publications

References 58 publications

Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy

Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy

Technology and organised crime in the smart city: an ethnographic study of the illicit drug trade

Smart cities, social media platforms and security: online content regulation as a site of controversy and conflict

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