...Techniques of Preparedness ...

... police officer, the department attempted teach officers to perform every aspect of their job, from walking and chewing properly to compelling enrollment in legal and forensic science classes. Officer training and innovation became synonymous with preparedness and the World War I—adjacent militarization...

... displaces a crucial imperial genealogy and history of the present that forms the basis of contemporary imperial counterinsurgency, surveillance, security, and “preparedness” strategies. Here the concept work is around the sentiments and sensibilities that notions of security produce, on the subjects...

... and military preparedness. It traces the patriarchal, antidemocratic implications of the New Life Movement’s social perspective, which was that of officers and managers who wanted people to act like soldiers in a national army or cogs in a giant social machine. This chapter further investigates how...

... imperial genealogy and history of the present that forms the basis of contemporary imperial counterinsurgency, surveillance, security, and “preparedness” strategies. Here the concept work is around the sentiments and sensibilities that notions of security produce, on the subjects they endeavor to create...