For that, I argue, a sharper conception of what characterizes that world is needed.
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To bring Beck into security studies, then, means to study ‘security’ from within Beck’s ‘new world’. While it is Ulrich Beck’s concept of ‘risk society’ that has mostly attracted attention in the field of security studies, in this article I argue that if we want to take Beck seriously, we need to go beyond his ‘risk society’ thesis and acknowledge that his main thesis was that we live in a social reality that is qualitatively new and, consequently, calls for a radical shift in how we look at and talk about it.
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At the same time, it is symbolically ‘tamed’ and organised through a (modern) understanding of bordered social ‘containers’, in which ‘Drohnen’ are imagined to exist and are subject to ‘compartmentalised’ responsibilities. In this theme the technology ‘Drohne’ (drone) is imagined as potentially ‘game changing’ in nature. With that the analysis reveals an intriguing subtle theme in the social negotiation of UAVs in Germany. Importantly, it uncovers the distinction between two kinds of ‘Drohnen’: actors and tool, and unveils a geography of ‘Drohne’, in and through which ‘Drohnen’ are ‘managed’. This analysis provides insight into the meanings attached to the word Drohne, such as ‘military power’, ‘hyper-progress’ and ‘threat to extant technology’. With an interest in the German imagination of UAVs, the article presents an analysis of what is captured in the word Drohne (drone) in a corpus generated from an established German news platform. This article takes the word drone as a distinct component of these negotiations and imaginations of UAVs. Like any technology, UAVs are not just a technical object with distinct technical qualities but also the product of social negotiations and imaginations in public discourses. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have come to be a central military technology in the current era and have also recently entered the civil sector. The aim of this chapter is to invite policy makers to appreciate the complexity of preventive detention-in its socio-political as well as legal nature-in order that such an appreciation might inform debate about and development of policy into the future. This larger question represents an essential but oft neglected aspect of any legislative proposals regarding preventive detention. Consequently, policy debates must go beyond traditional legal concerns and a concern with effectiveness, to ask what preventive detention does to society.
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Given its three main ingredients-the logic of 'prevention', the technology of 'risk' and the practice of 'security'-preventive detention is both implicated in and implicates large socio-political concerns relating to the very constitution of society. Although preventive detention is typically understood according to its legal profile-according to which it is measured in terms of procedural fairness, fidelity to legal principles and against human rights norms-or in relation to its effectiveness, the significance of preventive detention stretches beyond its identity as a particular set of practices located within the legal realm. The proliferation of preventive detention regimes over recent decades demands ever-vigilant attention.