Constructing resilience through security and surveillance: The politics, practices and tensions of security-driven resilience

Security Dialogue

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 86-105

  Coaffee, Jon ^a   Fussey, Pete ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

human security; resilience; security; surveillance; terror

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922694169     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010614557884     Document Type: Article

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