{"product_id":"security-expertise-9781138236677","title":"Security Expertise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together scholars from different fields to explore the power, consequences and everyday practices of security expertise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpertise mediates between different forms of knowledge: scientific and technological, legal, economic and political knowledge. This book offers the first systematic study of security expertise and opens up a productive dialogue between science and technology studies and security studies to investigate the character and consequences of this expertise. In security theory, the study of expertise is crucial to understanding whose knowledge informs security making and to reflect on the impact and responsibility of security analysis. In science and technology studies, the study of security politics adds a challenging new case to the agenda of research on expertise and policy. The contributors investigate cases such as academic security studies, security think tanks, the collaboration between science, anthropology and the military, transnational\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Security Expertise: An Introduction, \u003cem\u003eTrine Villumsen Berling \u0026amp; Christian Bueger \u003c\/em\u003e2. What is Expertise? Technical Knowledge and Political Judgment, \u003cem\u003eRobert Evans \u003c\/em\u003e3. What is Security Expertise? From a Sociology of Professions to the Analysis of Networks of Expertise, \u003cem\u003eGil Eyal and Grace Pok \u003c\/em\u003e4. In Defence of Security, \u003cem\u003eThomas Osborne \u003c\/em\u003e5. The History and Social Structure of Security Studies as a Practico-Academic Field, \u003cem\u003eOle Wæver \u003c\/em\u003e6. Think Tanks in Security and International Affairs, \u003cem\u003eJames McGann \u003c\/em\u003e7. Producing Knowledge for the Military: Experts and Amateurs in the National Security Community, \u003cem\u003eJudith Reppy \u003c\/em\u003e8. Contesting Human Security Expertise: Technical Practices in Reconfiguring International Security, \u003cem\u003eSaul Halfon \u003c\/em\u003e9. Problematic Knowledge: How \"Terrorism\" Resists Expertise, \u003cem\u003eLisa Stampnitzky \u003c\/em\u003e10. On Wolfs, Squirrels and Pandas: The Characters of Strategy Experts, \u003cem\u003eMikkel Vedby Rasmussen \u003c\/em\u003e11. On How To Be a Collective Intellectual – Critical Terrorism Studies and the Countering of Hegemonic Discourse, \u003cem\u003eRichard Jackson \u003c\/em\u003e12. Ethics, Expertise and Human Terrain, \u003cem\u003eHugh Gusterson \u003c\/em\u003e13. Away from the Heart of Darkness: Transparency and Regulating the Relationships Between Security Experts and Security Sectors, \u003cem\u003ePiki Ish-Shalom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019468833111,"sku":"9781138236677","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138236677.jpg?v=1750780365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/security-expertise-9781138236677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}