Walters, William
State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Interventions)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780367773397
- author:
- Walters, William
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 174
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 15.6 x 1 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Tertiary Education (US: College), Nonfiction, Politics,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary challenges conventional understandings of secrecy in liberal democracies. William Walters argues that secrecy should be given greater prominence in critical security studies, leading to new concepts and methods for researching power.
The book explores various themes related to secrecy, including the mobility of cryptographic secrets, public inquiries, place-making, and aesthetics within immigration enforcement. Walters identifies the covert imaginary as both a limitation on thinking politics differently and a foundation for developing a richer understanding of power.
This book offers readers a set of tools to better comprehend the complex powers that secrecy operates. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of security, secrecy, and politics more broadly.