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Disaster recovery holds an ambiguous status in debates on disaster politics. Whilst some scholars have documented recovery's tendency to reproduce and exacerbate the historical conditions that underpin disasters and guide their uneven effects, others emphasise its potential to instigate attempts to transform these conditions and initiate new develo...
Disasters are a primary influence in the global development landscape given their unequal impacts across society and calls for transformative change in their aftermath. Recovering from disasters is one component of development that is coming under scrutiny. This is especially so in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, whose scale, scope, and casca...
Scholars have explored how governmental agendas pursued in the name of resilience redistribute the responsibility for attending to emergencies amongst governments and communities. In this paper, we draw on two years of research with community groups responding to Covid-19 in the United Kingdom to deepen these debates concerning the effects of so-ca...
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of co...
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of co...
How has the idea of community featured in attempts to build resilience to emergencies? The paper explores this question by presenting evidence from interviews with emergency responders across the world in the midst of the early and uncertain phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although reflecting different contexts, we discern two ways in which the no...
This paper explores and extends understanding on the role and significance of whole-of-society resilience programmes that support cities when dealing with complex crises, like the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlighting the complexity of whole-of-society resilience as different actors locally shape it, we ask the question: How can collaboration between for...
This article contributes to emergent debates in critical security studies that consider the processes and effects that arise where new forms of automated technology begin to guide security practices. It does so through research into public Wi-Fi infrastructure that has started to appear across the globe and its mobilization as a device for warning...
The article engages with and extends emergent debates regarding the envelopment of affective life in practices of security through research into the design of shared situational awareness protocols used in emergency response. Crafted to address what are commonly called ‘multi-agency’ incidents, shared situational awareness protocols aim to generate...
Recently debates have emerged concerning how atmospheric objects referred to collectively as ‘elemental’ become entangled in the operation of communication infrastructure. The paper extends these debates through research into UK emergency responders’ information sharing during emergencies. Harnessing textual analysis and an interview, the paper unp...
In this chapter, the book offers an in-depth description of the development of fire governance in the UK. Overall, it covers the time from the Great Fire of London in 1666 to the role of fire brigades in planning and responding to the incendiary bombing inflicted on Britain during the Blitzkrieg. In addition, the chapter explains the influence of M...
This chapter engages in more depth with two of the strategies that the FRS use to govern fire risk: protection and preparedness. Under the nomenclature of governmental logics, I probe these strategies in terms of the different forces that are enrolled in their deployment. Forces here are taken to refer to a number of things: from the formal courses...
This chapter engages and develops the popular concept of interface to critically examine analytic processes found in the FRS. Interface is an important concept initially because it allows for an understanding of fire risk projections as premised on the capacity of different objects to relate to one another, from data and software itself to human an...
The conclusion offers a summary and extension of the book’s key themes. It first outlines how lived relations to risk contribute to extant debates and interpretations of risk governance and security more broadly. It then turns to engage in detail with the book’s focus on data as an entity central to forms of governance, albeit one that still requir...
The book turns in this chapter to consider the FRS’ use of training exercises in which potential future fire emergencies are simulated in order to both assess and redevelop response protocols. Exercises show how forms of knowledge I describe as aesthetic are now crucial for making sense of and imagining future emergencies around which governing tec...
In this chapter, the book investigates how the Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) develop risk profiles which outline the people, and the places that they live in, that are most vulnerable to fire risk. The chapter reveals in detail how these risk profiles are assembled in a way that draws on both information supplied by software called MOSAIC that is...
Through an exploration of the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), this book examines how the emergence of digital technologies, combined with a policy emphasis on risk, have fundamentally transformed the way society is secured against emergencies. Forms of anticipatory governance have developed in which interventions are made in the prese...
Emergency management practices are being reshaped by social media.
Emergency responders are embracing social media to enhance communications
during an emergency. The integration of social media into UK emergency
management is ambigious, and it is uncertain as to whether it is an effective tool. Using a mixed methods approach, this research investig...
This book brings together a number of contributions that look into the political regulation of movement and analyses that engage the material enablers of and constraints on such movement. It attempts to bridge theoretical perspectives from critical security studies and political geography in order to provide a more comprehensive perspective on secu...
This chapter analyses the British Fire and Rescue Services, in particular how data travel through their digital infrastructures until it is finally computed into risk assessments that intend to predict future occurrences of fire and thereby serve as a means of government. The chapter points to the contingent nature of data, and how it changes both...
This article explores the deployment of exercises by the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service. Exercises stage, simulate and act out potential future emergencies and in so doing help the Fire and Rescue Service prepare for future emergencies. Specifically, exercises operate to assess and develop protocol; sets of guidelines which plan out the act...
Over the last decade, fire governance practices in the British Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) have undergone fundamental transformation. Rather than just being responded to as and when they occur, the FRS have adopted a range of anticipatory governing strategies to govern fires in anticipation of their occurence. This turn towards anticipatory gover...
A growing body of literature draws upon Foucault’s security oeuvre in examining how societies are secured at the level of circulation. Although demonstrating the strength of Foucault’s contribution to debates about security and circulation, sustained attention has yet to be afforded to a central notion in Foucault’s work on security; the concept of...
As Foucault’s writing on the role of population in managing societies through security would attest, the term milieu is not primarily a tool for analysing primary data. Instead, it is a means to model data on population according to specific spatial parameters, and a means of structuring examination of populations in a particular way. The importanc...
