Sirpa Virta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sirpa Virta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sirpa |
| FAMILY NAME | Virta |
| SIGNATURE | VIRTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tampere |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Legitimate Security? Understanding the Contingencies of Security and Deliberation
Comprehensive security politics and policy build on the development of the societal security field in Europe and especially in the Nordic countries. Societal security has clear consequences for society and its functioning, social institutions, civil society and democracy. The purpose of the article is to critically analyse the consequences of security policy, societal security processes and governing practices, in order to understand the limitati…
The Simulation of Crime Control: A Shift in Policing
The authors argue that policing by consent is being displaced by policing by information control. This discomfiting adaptation in liberal democracies is possible in the shadow of asymmetrical, border-collapsing exceptionalism. It has also benefited from synoptic effects in which reference to the liberal democratic legacy substitutes for liberal democratic practices. Current technologies, as demonstrated in watch-listing, public relations operatio…
Security in ambiguity: Towards a radical security politics
In this article we offer a reconceptualization of security that attempts to reconcile a post-critical and normative agenda. The article proceeds by unpacking features of the dominant security discourse and then resituating the question in a radical politics. We contend that moving forward on this question requires a rejection of the association between security, certainty and authority. Rather than following the classical realist view that securi…
Security in ambiguity: Towards a radical security politics
In this article we offer a reconceptualization of security that attempts to reconcile a post-critical and normative agenda. The article proceeds by unpacking features of the dominant security discourse and then resituating the question in a radical politics. We contend that moving forward on this question requires a rejection of the association between security, certainty and authority. Rather than following the classical realist view that securi…
The Simulation of Crime Control: A Shift in Policing
The authors argue that policing by consent is being displaced by policing by information control. This discomfiting adaptation in liberal democracies is possible in the shadow of asymmetrical, border-collapsing exceptionalism. It has also benefited from synoptic effects in which reference to the liberal democratic legacy substitutes for liberal democratic practices. Current technologies, as demonstrated in watch-listing, public relations operatio…
Legitimate Security? Understanding the Contingencies of Security and Deliberation
Comprehensive security politics and policy build on the development of the societal security field in Europe and especially in the Nordic countries. Societal security has clear consequences for society and its functioning, social institutions, civil society and democracy. The purpose of the article is to critically analyse the consequences of security policy, societal security processes and governing practices, in order to understand the limitati…
Security in ambiguity: Towards a radical security politics
In this article we offer a reconceptualization of security that attempts to reconcile a post-critical and normative agenda. The article proceeds by unpacking features of the dominant security discourse and then resituating the question in a radical politics. We contend that moving forward on this question requires a rejection of the association between security, certainty and authority. Rather than following the classical realist view that securi…
The Simulation of Crime Control: A Shift in Policing
The authors argue that policing by consent is being displaced by policing by information control. This discomfiting adaptation in liberal democracies is possible in the shadow of asymmetrical, border-collapsing exceptionalism. It has also benefited from synoptic effects in which reference to the liberal democratic legacy substitutes for liberal democratic practices. Current technologies, as demonstrated in watch-listing, public relations operatio…
Legitimate Security? Understanding the Contingencies of Security and Deliberation
Comprehensive security politics and policy build on the development of the societal security field in Europe and especially in the Nordic countries. Societal security has clear consequences for society and its functioning, social institutions, civil society and democracy. The purpose of the article is to critically analyse the consequences of security policy, societal security processes and governing practices, in order to understand the limitati…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Critical security studies (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Global Security and Public Health (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)