Nathaniel O’grady
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 192346 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nathaniel O’grady |
| PRENOMES | Nathaniel |
| SOBRENOME | O’grady |
| ASSINATURA | O’GRADY N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4400-7290 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Everyday climate adaptation inequality
Access to infrastructure plays a significant role in shaping our ability to adapt to a changing climate. It also underpins the uneven distribution of climate vulnerability. This article extends debates at the intersection of infrastructure, adaptation, and vulnerability by exploring everyday practices of climate adaptation through people’s attempts to weatherize their houses during climate-related emergencies. Referring to the adjustments people …
The Politics of Repair in a Broken World
Much of the world is currently bearing witness to major transformations to the liberal-modern geopolitical order that has defined it for some time. Amid this crisis, an array of new political orientations have been adopted by the different actors now competing for the authority to establish the agendas that will shape our future. One such orientation is repair. Repair refers to a mode of political critique that reads our present malaise as the re…
A Reparative Paradigm for Thinking With Disasters
The field of disaster studies remains largely committed to a modernist spatio‐temporal imaginary that persistently emphasises the singularity of a given disaster and often fails to account for the broader set of affairs in which disasters are situated and shaped, in turn leading to circumspect, uninventive and ineffective policy outcomes. In light of these trends, we argue for a paradigm shift in disaster research. In this commentary, we aim to a…
From rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management
Revisiting ‘resilience
(Re) framing the politics of climate change
One of the ways we know climate change is through the emergencies that make it present. But how does the connection between singular events (emergencies) and a meta-stable condition (climate change) become perceivable to us? Through what forms of knowledge? And with what implications for the politics of climate change governance? I take these questions up by exploring government-orchestrated efforts to enhance climate resilience through cultivati…
On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience
Recovery for Development
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 cascading effects mean that the uncertain prospects for recovery will be complicated and endure long term…
Disaster reparations? Rethinking disaster recovery through the politics of affect
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 development pathways premised on a commitment to building more just, equitable worlds. In this paper, we e…
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon
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-called 'responsibilization' amid appeals for resilience. Against popular claims that equate resilience…
People in a pandemic
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 notion of community featured in authorities' narrations of their efforts to respond to the pandemic. F…
Automating security infrastructures
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 public about emergencies. I focus specifically on an iteration of this infrastructure developing…
Designing affect into security
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 real time, dynamic understandings of emergency situations that can be held consensually among diffe…
Communication and the elemental
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 unpacks the protocols established to organise information sharing and explores how such protocols inter…
Protocol and the post-human performativity of security techniques
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 actions undertaken by the Fire and Rescue Service in responding to a fire. In the article I outline and…
Data, interface, security
Securing Circulation Through Mobility
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 milieu. Engaging in particular with Foucault’s 1977–1978 lectures at the Collėge de France collecti…
Adopting the Position of Error
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 importance of space is also apparent in Canguilhem's work on the notion of milieu in his writings on bacterio…
Speculative Security
Automating security infrastructures
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 public about emergencies. I focus specifically on an iteration of this infrastructure developing…
Disaster reparations? Rethinking disaster recovery through the politics of affect
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 development pathways premised on a commitment to building more just, equitable worlds. In this paper, we e…
People in a pandemic
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 notion of community featured in authorities' narrations of their efforts to respond to the pandemic. F…
Communication and the elemental
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 unpacks the protocols established to organise information sharing and explores how such protocols inter…
Protocol and the post-human performativity of security techniques
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 actions undertaken by the Fire and Rescue Service in responding to a fire. In the article I outline and…
Data, interface, security
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon
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-called 'responsibilization' amid appeals for resilience. Against popular claims that equate resilience…
On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience
Designing affect into security
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 real time, dynamic understandings of emergency situations that can be held consensually among diffe…
Securing Circulation Through Mobility
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 milieu. Engaging in particular with Foucault’s 1977–1978 lectures at the Collėge de France collecti…
Adopting the Position of Error
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 importance of space is also apparent in Canguilhem's work on the notion of milieu in his writings on bacterio…
Revisiting ‘resilience
(Re) framing the politics of climate change
One of the ways we know climate change is through the emergencies that make it present. But how does the connection between singular events (emergencies) and a meta-stable condition (climate change) become perceivable to us? Through what forms of knowledge? And with what implications for the politics of climate change governance? I take these questions up by exploring government-orchestrated efforts to enhance climate resilience through cultivati…
Speculative Security
Adopting the Position of Error
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 importance of space is also apparent in Canguilhem's work on the notion of milieu in his writings on bacterio…
Speculative Security
Securing Circulation Through Mobility
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 milieu. Engaging in particular with Foucault’s 1977–1978 lectures at the Collėge de France collecti…
Data, interface, security
Protocol and the post-human performativity of security techniques
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 actions undertaken by the Fire and Rescue Service in responding to a fire. In the article I outline and…
Designing affect into security
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 real time, dynamic understandings of emergency situations that can be held consensually among diffe…
Communication and the elemental
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 unpacks the protocols established to organise information sharing and explores how such protocols inter…
Automating security infrastructures
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 public about emergencies. I focus specifically on an iteration of this infrastructure developing…
People in a pandemic
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 notion of community featured in authorities' narrations of their efforts to respond to the pandemic. F…
Recovery for Development
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 cascading effects mean that the uncertain prospects for recovery will be complicated and endure long term…
Disaster reparations? Rethinking disaster recovery through the politics of affect
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 development pathways premised on a commitment to building more just, equitable worlds. In this paper, we e…
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon
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-called 'responsibilization' amid appeals for resilience. Against popular claims that equate resilience…
On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience
From rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management
Revisiting ‘resilience
(Re) framing the politics of climate change
One of the ways we know climate change is through the emergencies that make it present. But how does the connection between singular events (emergencies) and a meta-stable condition (climate change) become perceivable to us? Through what forms of knowledge? And with what implications for the politics of climate change governance? I take these questions up by exploring government-orchestrated efforts to enhance climate resilience through cultivati…
Everyday climate adaptation inequality
Access to infrastructure plays a significant role in shaping our ability to adapt to a changing climate. It also underpins the uneven distribution of climate vulnerability. This article extends debates at the intersection of infrastructure, adaptation, and vulnerability by exploring everyday practices of climate adaptation through people’s attempts to weatherize their houses during climate-related emergencies. Referring to the adjustments people …
The Politics of Repair in a Broken World
Much of the world is currently bearing witness to major transformations to the liberal-modern geopolitical order that has defined it for some time. Amid this crisis, an array of new political orientations have been adopted by the different actors now competing for the authority to establish the agendas that will shape our future. One such orientation is repair. Repair refers to a mode of political critique that reads our present malaise as the re…
A Reparative Paradigm for Thinking With Disasters
The field of disaster studies remains largely committed to a modernist spatio‐temporal imaginary that persistently emphasises the singularity of a given disaster and often fails to account for the broader set of affairs in which disasters are situated and shaped, in turn leading to circumspect, uninventive and ineffective policy outcomes. In light of these trends, we argue for a paradigm shift in disaster research. In this commentary, we aim to a…
Sociology (13 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Business (7 obras) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (7 obras) · Corporate governance (7 obras) · Engineering (6 obras)