Rhetoric of InSecurity: The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts...

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Victoria Baines

Rhetoric of InSecurity

The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts

Victoria Baines

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Routledge
14 July 2021

Literature: history & criticism; Criminology: legal aspects; Legal aspects of computing; Computer fraud & hacking; Computer science

Series: Law, Language and Communication

"This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years.

The work considers the history of security rhetoric in a number of distinct but related contexts, including the United States’ security strategy, the ""war"" on Big Tech, and current concerns such as cybersecurity. Focusing on the language of security discourse, it draws common threads from the ancient world to the present day and the near future. The book grounds recent comparisons of Donald Trump to the Emperor Nero in a linguistic evidence base. It examines the potential impact on society of policy-makers’ emphasis on the novelty of cybercrime, their likening of the internet to the Wild West, and their claims that criminals have ""gone dark"". It questions governments’ descriptions of technology companies in words normally reserved for terrorists, and asks who might benefit.

Interdisciplinary in approach, the book builds on existing literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences, most notably studies on rhetoric in Greco-Roman texts, and on the articulation of security concerns in law, international relations, and public policy contexts. It adds value to this body of research by offering new points of comparison, and a fresh but tried and tested way of looking at problems that are often presented as unprecedented. It will be essential to legal and policy practitioners, students of Law, Politics, Media, and Classics, and all those interested in employing critical thinking."

By: Victoria Baines
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 349g
ISBN: 9780367463076
ISBN 10: 0367463075
Series: Law, Language and Communication
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 14 July 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 - The Classical Heritage of Modern (In)Security Rhetoric Chapter 2 – The Rhetoric of the US National Security Strategy Chapter 3 – The War on Big Tech: Construction of Internet Companies as Ideological Others Chapter 4 – The Dark Wild West World War: Danger and Incapability in the Realm of Cybersecurity Chapter 5 – Epilogue

Victoria Baines is Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University’s School of Computing. She has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and lectured at Stanford University. Trained as a Classicist with a specialism in rhetoric in Roman literature, she worked as a law enforcement intelligence analyst and a technology company executive before returning to research. Her research touches on public policy, threat representation, surveillance, cyberspace and internet governance, and futures methods. She regularly contributes to media coverage on the misuse of social and emerging technologies.