Columba Peoples
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1667737 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Columba Peoples |
| NOMBRES | Columba |
| APELLIDO | Peoples |
| FIRMA | PEOPLES C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0844-8374 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Security in Crisis
The concept of crisis is a recurrent staple in representations of modern forms of insecurity—from nuclear proliferation to cyber-security, armed conflict, the instability of political institutions, from pandemics to risks of social and financial collapse. Amidst this seeming ubiquity and ever-presence, the onset of climate and ecological emergencies as potential planetary-scale threats to the habitability of the Earth raise particularly urgent qu…
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis
This article analyses and critically reflects on how the concept of 'crisis' has tended to feature within prominent debates on 'Crisis of the Liberal International Order'. Within such scholarship, the article argues, the concept of crisis most often functions as a technology of crisis management in itself: rather than disrupting narratives and assumptions of liberal progress and order, invocations of crisis within Liberal International Order scho…
Global uncertainties, geoengineering and the technopolitics of planetary crisis management
With rising sea levels and disappearing species as harbingers of a planet-wide existential crisis facing the Earth, this article considers the ways in which geoengineering proposals diverge from understandings of global uncertainties and threats within scholarship on the globalization of insecurity, instead identifying ‘the planetary’ as a distinctive space of insecurity. Working at that scale, geoengineering proposals in turn not only claim to o…
Critical Security Studies
This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters – on ‘Ontological security’ and ‘(In)Security and the everyday’ – and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear manner, Critical Security Studies: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security …
At the outer limits of the international
As staples of science fiction, space technologies, much like outer space itself, have often been regarded as being 'out there' objects of international security analysis. However, as a growing subset of security scholarship indicates, terrestrial politics and practices are ever more dependent on space technologies and systems. Existing scholarship in 'astropolitics' and 'critical astropolitics' has tended to concentrate on how such technologies a…
Life in the nuclear age
Classical realist thought provides a diagnosis of the significance nuclear weapons that calls into question the very possibility of politics in the nuclear age. While sharing similarities with this outlook, critical theoretic reflections suggest a more expansive consideration of the nuclear condition as underpinned by combinations of dystopian fears of nuclear destruction and utopian visions of nuclear futures. Most prominently Herbert Marcuse’s …
Redemption and Nutopia
What should the scope of nuclear critique within international studies be? This article addresses that question by making two interrelated arguments. First that political programmes of international nuclear order are crucially underpinned by what is termed here as ‘nutopianism’: a mode of understanding nuclear power that is imbued with a spirit of technological optimism in relation to ‘peaceful’ nuclear power, but simultaneously qualified by an a…
Critical Security Studies
Critical Security Studies introduces students to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of evolving approaches and key issues. This new edition contains two new chapters and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear manner, Critical Security Studies: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security studies locates critical security studies within the broader context of social and…
New nuclear, new security? Framing security in the policy case for new nuclear power in the United Kingdom
Over the period of the past decade and across successive governments, the case for new nuclear power in the UK has, in policy terms, become embedded as a key facet of UK energy policy. Crucial in this respect, this article argues, has been the framing of the case for nuclear power stations and associated infrastructure in security terms: that is, the case for new nuclear power has come to be articulated and reiterated in direct relation to future…
The Securitization of Outer Space
The concepts of militarization and weaponization dominate debates on space security, and radically different implications for arms control follow depending on which of these two characterizations is adopted. Yet the militarization–weaponization debate in many ways fails to capture the vagaries of contemporary space policy. An increasing number of international actors now argue that the infrastructure of modern society – including communications, …
Security after emancipation? Critical Theory, violence and resistance
Within the current configuration of Critical Security Studies (CSS) the concept of ‘emancipation’ is upheld as the keystone of a commitment to transformative change in world politics, but comparatively little is said on the status of violence and resistance within that commitment. As a means of highlighting this relative silence, this article examines the nature of the connection between CSS and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. In par…
Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence
Critical Security Studies
Critical Security Studies introduces students of Politics and International Relations to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. Written in an accessible and clear manner, this textbook: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security studies, locates critical security studies within the broader context of social and political theory, evaluates fundamental theoretical posi…
Critical security studies
Technology, philosophy and international relations
War on Terror, work in progress
Workfare–Warfare
In recent decades, welfare reform in the USA has increasingly been based on a political imperative to reduce the number of people on welfare. This has in large part taken place through the establishment of a “workfare” state, in which the receipt of state benefits requires a paid labor input. Designed to reduce expenditure on civil social services, welfare‐to‐work programs have been introduced. At the same time, the restructuring of US defense pr…
Sputnik and ‘skill thinking’ revisited
Revisiting popular, political and academic reactions 50 years after the launch of Sputnik, this article seeks to highlight the substantial fear of technological development evident in these reactions. The nature of responses to Sputnik is especially notable, it is argued, in light of the tendency to assume an American love affair with technology across all areas of social and political life. The article examines the manner in which both contempor…
Assuming the Inevitable? Overcoming the Inevitability of Outer Space Weaponization and Conflict
Is armed conflict in and from space inevitable? In recent years a consensus has emerged that space has become increasingly militarized - in the sense that technologies placed in outer space are increasingly used to facilitate and augment traditional military activities. But actual use of weapons in or from outer space remains highly controversial. The aim of this article is to assess the attitudes of major space-faring powers towards space weapon…
Decoding ballistic missile defense
Building on earlier assessments of visual representation in air and missile defenses, and on investigations of the role of representation and perception in warfare more generally, this article offers a semiotic analysis of the signifying practices and processes that are a necessary part of America's Ballistic Missile Defense systems. The argument is made that missile defense – a range of projects aimed at protecting the United States by intercept…
Technology and Politics in the Missile Defence Debate
American ballistic missile defence remains highly contentious and has been the source of much academic debate. This article undertakes an overview of assessments analysing the rationales behind missile defence. Through the application of a Critical Security Studies perspective, it addresses the underlying assumptions and potential limitations of these assessments. In particular it seeks to show that the current literature on missile defence is pr…
The Moral Obligation of Missile Defence? Preventive War Argumentation and Ballistic Missile Defence Advocacy
This article aims to assess the moral arguments that have been propounded for missile defence in the post-Cold-War era and to evaluate how these relate to those made for the ‘pre-emptive’ use of military force. Specific attention is paid to the argument that contemporary missile defence constitutes a form of moral obligation for the United States, a position explicitly advocated by just war theorist James Turner Johnson. Drawing on critiques of s…
Redemption and Nutopia
What should the scope of nuclear critique within international studies be? This article addresses that question by making two interrelated arguments. First that political programmes of international nuclear order are crucially underpinned by what is termed here as ‘nutopianism’: a mode of understanding nuclear power that is imbued with a spirit of technological optimism in relation to ‘peaceful’ nuclear power, but simultaneously qualified by an a…
At the outer limits of the international
As staples of science fiction, space technologies, much like outer space itself, have often been regarded as being 'out there' objects of international security analysis. However, as a growing subset of security scholarship indicates, terrestrial politics and practices are ever more dependent on space technologies and systems. Existing scholarship in 'astropolitics' and 'critical astropolitics' has tended to concentrate on how such technologies a…
Sputnik and ‘skill thinking’ revisited
Revisiting popular, political and academic reactions 50 years after the launch of Sputnik, this article seeks to highlight the substantial fear of technological development evident in these reactions. The nature of responses to Sputnik is especially notable, it is argued, in light of the tendency to assume an American love affair with technology across all areas of social and political life. The article examines the manner in which both contempor…
The Securitization of Outer Space
The concepts of militarization and weaponization dominate debates on space security, and radically different implications for arms control follow depending on which of these two characterizations is adopted. Yet the militarization–weaponization debate in many ways fails to capture the vagaries of contemporary space policy. An increasing number of international actors now argue that the infrastructure of modern society – including communications, …
Security after emancipation? Critical Theory, violence and resistance
Within the current configuration of Critical Security Studies (CSS) the concept of ‘emancipation’ is upheld as the keystone of a commitment to transformative change in world politics, but comparatively little is said on the status of violence and resistance within that commitment. As a means of highlighting this relative silence, this article examines the nature of the connection between CSS and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. In par…
Assuming the Inevitable? Overcoming the Inevitability of Outer Space Weaponization and Conflict
Is armed conflict in and from space inevitable? In recent years a consensus has emerged that space has become increasingly militarized - in the sense that technologies placed in outer space are increasingly used to facilitate and augment traditional military activities. But actual use of weapons in or from outer space remains highly controversial. The aim of this article is to assess the attitudes of major space-faring powers towards space weapon…
Decoding ballistic missile defense
Building on earlier assessments of visual representation in air and missile defenses, and on investigations of the role of representation and perception in warfare more generally, this article offers a semiotic analysis of the signifying practices and processes that are a necessary part of America's Ballistic Missile Defense systems. The argument is made that missile defense – a range of projects aimed at protecting the United States by intercept…
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis
This article analyses and critically reflects on how the concept of 'crisis' has tended to feature within prominent debates on 'Crisis of the Liberal International Order'. Within such scholarship, the article argues, the concept of crisis most often functions as a technology of crisis management in itself: rather than disrupting narratives and assumptions of liberal progress and order, invocations of crisis within Liberal International Order scho…
Life in the nuclear age
Classical realist thought provides a diagnosis of the significance nuclear weapons that calls into question the very possibility of politics in the nuclear age. While sharing similarities with this outlook, critical theoretic reflections suggest a more expansive consideration of the nuclear condition as underpinned by combinations of dystopian fears of nuclear destruction and utopian visions of nuclear futures. Most prominently Herbert Marcuse’s …
Technology, philosophy and international relations
Workfare–Warfare
In recent decades, welfare reform in the USA has increasingly been based on a political imperative to reduce the number of people on welfare. This has in large part taken place through the establishment of a “workfare” state, in which the receipt of state benefits requires a paid labor input. Designed to reduce expenditure on civil social services, welfare‐to‐work programs have been introduced. At the same time, the restructuring of US defense pr…
Global uncertainties, geoengineering and the technopolitics of planetary crisis management
With rising sea levels and disappearing species as harbingers of a planet-wide existential crisis facing the Earth, this article considers the ways in which geoengineering proposals diverge from understandings of global uncertainties and threats within scholarship on the globalization of insecurity, instead identifying ‘the planetary’ as a distinctive space of insecurity. Working at that scale, geoengineering proposals in turn not only claim to o…
New nuclear, new security? Framing security in the policy case for new nuclear power in the United Kingdom
Over the period of the past decade and across successive governments, the case for new nuclear power in the UK has, in policy terms, become embedded as a key facet of UK energy policy. Crucial in this respect, this article argues, has been the framing of the case for nuclear power stations and associated infrastructure in security terms: that is, the case for new nuclear power has come to be articulated and reiterated in direct relation to future…
Critical security studies
War on Terror, work in progress
Technology and Politics in the Missile Defence Debate
American ballistic missile defence remains highly contentious and has been the source of much academic debate. This article undertakes an overview of assessments analysing the rationales behind missile defence. Through the application of a Critical Security Studies perspective, it addresses the underlying assumptions and potential limitations of these assessments. In particular it seeks to show that the current literature on missile defence is pr…
The Moral Obligation of Missile Defence? Preventive War Argumentation and Ballistic Missile Defence Advocacy
This article aims to assess the moral arguments that have been propounded for missile defence in the post-Cold-War era and to evaluate how these relate to those made for the ‘pre-emptive’ use of military force. Specific attention is paid to the argument that contemporary missile defence constitutes a form of moral obligation for the United States, a position explicitly advocated by just war theorist James Turner Johnson. Drawing on critiques of s…
Technology and Politics in the Missile Defence Debate
American ballistic missile defence remains highly contentious and has been the source of much academic debate. This article undertakes an overview of assessments analysing the rationales behind missile defence. Through the application of a Critical Security Studies perspective, it addresses the underlying assumptions and potential limitations of these assessments. In particular it seeks to show that the current literature on missile defence is pr…
Sputnik and ‘skill thinking’ revisited
Revisiting popular, political and academic reactions 50 years after the launch of Sputnik, this article seeks to highlight the substantial fear of technological development evident in these reactions. The nature of responses to Sputnik is especially notable, it is argued, in light of the tendency to assume an American love affair with technology across all areas of social and political life. The article examines the manner in which both contempor…
Assuming the Inevitable? Overcoming the Inevitability of Outer Space Weaponization and Conflict
Is armed conflict in and from space inevitable? In recent years a consensus has emerged that space has become increasingly militarized - in the sense that technologies placed in outer space are increasingly used to facilitate and augment traditional military activities. But actual use of weapons in or from outer space remains highly controversial. The aim of this article is to assess the attitudes of major space-faring powers towards space weapon…
Decoding ballistic missile defense
Building on earlier assessments of visual representation in air and missile defenses, and on investigations of the role of representation and perception in warfare more generally, this article offers a semiotic analysis of the signifying practices and processes that are a necessary part of America's Ballistic Missile Defense systems. The argument is made that missile defense – a range of projects aimed at protecting the United States by intercept…
Technology, philosophy and international relations
War on Terror, work in progress
Workfare–Warfare
In recent decades, welfare reform in the USA has increasingly been based on a political imperative to reduce the number of people on welfare. This has in large part taken place through the establishment of a “workfare” state, in which the receipt of state benefits requires a paid labor input. Designed to reduce expenditure on civil social services, welfare‐to‐work programs have been introduced. At the same time, the restructuring of US defense pr…
Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence
Critical Security Studies
Critical Security Studies introduces students of Politics and International Relations to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. Written in an accessible and clear manner, this textbook: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security studies, locates critical security studies within the broader context of social and political theory, evaluates fundamental theoretical posi…
Critical security studies
The Securitization of Outer Space
The concepts of militarization and weaponization dominate debates on space security, and radically different implications for arms control follow depending on which of these two characterizations is adopted. Yet the militarization–weaponization debate in many ways fails to capture the vagaries of contemporary space policy. An increasing number of international actors now argue that the infrastructure of modern society – including communications, …
Security after emancipation? Critical Theory, violence and resistance
Within the current configuration of Critical Security Studies (CSS) the concept of ‘emancipation’ is upheld as the keystone of a commitment to transformative change in world politics, but comparatively little is said on the status of violence and resistance within that commitment. As a means of highlighting this relative silence, this article examines the nature of the connection between CSS and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. In par…
Critical Security Studies
Critical Security Studies introduces students to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of evolving approaches and key issues. This new edition contains two new chapters and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear manner, Critical Security Studies: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security studies locates critical security studies within the broader context of social and…
New nuclear, new security? Framing security in the policy case for new nuclear power in the United Kingdom
Over the period of the past decade and across successive governments, the case for new nuclear power in the UK has, in policy terms, become embedded as a key facet of UK energy policy. Crucial in this respect, this article argues, has been the framing of the case for nuclear power stations and associated infrastructure in security terms: that is, the case for new nuclear power has come to be articulated and reiterated in direct relation to future…
Redemption and Nutopia
What should the scope of nuclear critique within international studies be? This article addresses that question by making two interrelated arguments. First that political programmes of international nuclear order are crucially underpinned by what is termed here as ‘nutopianism’: a mode of understanding nuclear power that is imbued with a spirit of technological optimism in relation to ‘peaceful’ nuclear power, but simultaneously qualified by an a…
Life in the nuclear age
Classical realist thought provides a diagnosis of the significance nuclear weapons that calls into question the very possibility of politics in the nuclear age. While sharing similarities with this outlook, critical theoretic reflections suggest a more expansive consideration of the nuclear condition as underpinned by combinations of dystopian fears of nuclear destruction and utopian visions of nuclear futures. Most prominently Herbert Marcuse’s …
Critical Security Studies
This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters – on ‘Ontological security’ and ‘(In)Security and the everyday’ – and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear manner, Critical Security Studies: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security …
At the outer limits of the international
As staples of science fiction, space technologies, much like outer space itself, have often been regarded as being 'out there' objects of international security analysis. However, as a growing subset of security scholarship indicates, terrestrial politics and practices are ever more dependent on space technologies and systems. Existing scholarship in 'astropolitics' and 'critical astropolitics' has tended to concentrate on how such technologies a…
Global uncertainties, geoengineering and the technopolitics of planetary crisis management
With rising sea levels and disappearing species as harbingers of a planet-wide existential crisis facing the Earth, this article considers the ways in which geoengineering proposals diverge from understandings of global uncertainties and threats within scholarship on the globalization of insecurity, instead identifying ‘the planetary’ as a distinctive space of insecurity. Working at that scale, geoengineering proposals in turn not only claim to o…
Security in Crisis
The concept of crisis is a recurrent staple in representations of modern forms of insecurity—from nuclear proliferation to cyber-security, armed conflict, the instability of political institutions, from pandemics to risks of social and financial collapse. Amidst this seeming ubiquity and ever-presence, the onset of climate and ecological emergencies as potential planetary-scale threats to the habitability of the Earth raise particularly urgent qu…
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis
This article analyses and critically reflects on how the concept of 'crisis' has tended to feature within prominent debates on 'Crisis of the Liberal International Order'. Within such scholarship, the article argues, the concept of crisis most often functions as a technology of crisis management in itself: rather than disrupting narratives and assumptions of liberal progress and order, invocations of crisis within Liberal International Order scho…
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