Security can be regarded as a set of governmental devices (dispositifs according to Foucault) which in modern states have ensured the management of the population and allowed the ordinary and regular functioning of liberal societies (Foucault, 2008). In this framework, ‘security devices’ are a set of governance techniques that emerged in the eighteenth century in order to act on the population, this being defined as a phenomenon which can be regulated according to a criterion of statistical normality and not according to a norm (Foucault, 2004b/2007). The series including ‘population’ - understood as the object of government in the place of the former unit constituted by the ‘territory’ - and ‘security devices’ - understood as a set of technologies with which to manage the population - is integrated with the notions of threat and risk, which become key elements of governance in liberal societies (Foucault, 2008).1.
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The governance of urban security: Ignored insecurities and the securitization of urban space (milan’s case study)
QUASSOLI, FABIOPrimo
;COLOMBO, MONICA GIANCARLA ROBERTAUltimo
2016
Abstract
Security can be regarded as a set of governmental devices (dispositifs according to Foucault) which in modern states have ensured the management of the population and allowed the ordinary and regular functioning of liberal societies (Foucault, 2008). In this framework, ‘security devices’ are a set of governance techniques that emerged in the eighteenth century in order to act on the population, this being defined as a phenomenon which can be regulated according to a criterion of statistical normality and not according to a norm (Foucault, 2004b/2007). The series including ‘population’ - understood as the object of government in the place of the former unit constituted by the ‘territory’ - and ‘security devices’ - understood as a set of technologies with which to manage the population - is integrated with the notions of threat and risk, which become key elements of governance in liberal societies (Foucault, 2008).1.
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