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'Stuart Price's bracing new book alerts us to the way that the contemporary security state pervades daily life. This is both a very alarming and a very scholarly work. True believers in the beneficence of capitalist democracies read on--and rethink.' -Toby Miller, author of 'Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention' 'Insightful and engaging, Stuart Price's book provides a critical analysis of the myths and mechanisms associated with the security regime set up to counter terrorism' - Daya Thussu, professor of international communication, University of Westminster, London 'Stuart Price again brings his clever and critical eye to a consideration of so-called emergency planning routines, providing a vital corrective to the assumption that these practices represent a straightforward response to potential threats. Using a wide range of case-studies, he shows how the intelligence community attempt to create discrete loci of power which avoid democratic oversight. This book will be important reading for those of us interested in the ways in which the relationship between state and society continue to evolve, not always in progressive directions.' - Karen Ross, professor of media and public communication, University of Liverpool

"Insightful and engaging, Stuart Price's book provides a critical analysis of the myths and mechanisms associated with the ""security regime"" set up to counter terrorism. * Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, University of Westminster, London * Stuart Price again brings his clever and critical eye to a consideration of so-called ""emergency planning"" routines, providing a vital corrective to the assumption that these practices represent a straightforward response to potential threats. Using a wide range of case-studies, he shows how the ""intelligence community"" attempt to create discrete loci of power which avoid democratic oversight. This book will be important reading for those of us interested in the ways in which the relationship between state and society continue to evolve, not always in progressive directions. * Karen Ross, Professor of Media and Public Communication, University of Liverpool * Stuart Price's bracing new book alerts us to the way that the contemporary security state pervades daily life. This is both a very alarming and a very scholarly work. * Toby Miller, author of 'Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention' *"

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Stuart Price is reader in media discourse and principal lecturer in media, film and journalism at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of 'Brute Reality' (2010), 'Discourse Power Address' (2007), and a number of other books on media and communication theory. He produced one of the few academic analyses of the Stockwell shooting, for Boehmer and Morton's 'Terror and the Postcolonial' (2010).

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