Governing Future Emergencies Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service /

• Main Author: O'Grady, Nathaniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Culture.; Sociology.; Industrial sociology.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Science and Technology Studies.; Sociology of Culture.; Knowledge - Discourse.; Sociology of Work.; British Politics.

Through an exploration of the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), this book examines how the emergence of digital technologies, combined with a policy emphasis on risk, have fundamentally transformed the way society is secured against emergencies. Forms of anticipatory governance have deve...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Genealogies of the Future: The Emergence of Fire Governance in the UK
• Chapter 3: Assembling Interfaces to Make Sense of the Future
• Chapter 4: Exercising Uncertainty: Aesthetic Renderings of Future Emergencies
• Chapter 5: Big Data, Subjectification and Preventing Fires
• Chapter 6: Be Prepared, To Protect: Detournement and the Forces behind Governmental Logics
• Chapter 7: Conclusion. .