... The introduction provides a performance-based analysis of airport security. The aesthetics of transparency is used to moralize biopolitical distinctions drawn between populations presumed capable of reflexive governance and those excluded from the project of risk management. In the post-9/11 era...

... risk management prediction uncertainty environmental hazards nonhuman ...

... This chapter focuses on the invention of the “zone of high risk” and on the everyday work required to render the uncertain future the basis for governmental intervention. It discusses the establishment of risk management on a national level beginning in the 1980s and the subsequent incorporation...

...,” government social workers who manage the resettlement of “at risk” populations, and inhabitants of the self-built settlements of the urban periphery, where the majority of high-risk zones are located. It shows how the future becomes the common ground of both urban politics and government, and how both...

.... It argues that the emergence of risk management as a technique for governing cities and urban life does not imply a complete rejection of progressive modernist narratives but rather reworks them in surprising ways. Linking recent developments in Bogotá to wider shifts in paradigms of urbanism, it concludes...

... settlers on the urban periphery strive to become visible as lives at risk in order to be recognized as citizens with rights. To demonstrate how risk management impacts urban politics, this chapter highlights situations in which the entitlements of urban citizens are mediated by and predicated on the degree...

...,” it highlights how the emergent political technology of risk management combines modern, liberal ideals of rights, citizenship, and freedom with other enduring forms of sociality, such as kinship, patronage, and religion. Based on daily interactions between government officials and this program’s beneficiaries...

... At a book launch for Jiz Lee’s Coming Out Like a Porn Star , Australian indie producers discuss the risks of coming out to family and friends, and the emotional labor they do in managing other people’s fears, stigmas, and responses. sex work stigma coming out emotional labor ...

... Chapter 6 examines how the “need-to-know” protocols set out by the IOM as information management guidelines for human trafficking victim assistance transformed the assistance process for grassroots NGO caseworkers in Japan and the Philippines, affecting both their relationships...