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The Preventive Gaze: How Prevention Transforms Our Understanding of the State - Softcover

Peeters, Rik

 
9789490947989: The Preventive Gaze: How Prevention Transforms Our Understanding of the State
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9490947989 ISBN 13: 9789490947989
Verlag: Eleven International Publishing, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Prevention is better than cure. This adage has become an important guideline for governments in recent years. Prevention of terrorist attacks, of recidivism among habitual offenders, of dropouts among problem adolescents, or of obesity among children: the existing repertoires of the constitutional state and the welfare state are complemented by a preventive intervention repertoire in a broad range of policy domains. But what does this transformation imply for our understanding of the state in late-modern society? This study reconstructs the emergence of 'the preventive gaze' in politics and policymaking, and discusses its consequences for the relation between state and society. Prevention seems to be a logical answer in the face of contemporary social issues such as security, education, welfare, and public health. However, prevention also has an expansive logic and pushes the state towards an ever more detailed, comprehensive, and timely approach to risks. As a consequence, the emergence of the 'prevention state' tends towards a slow and silent politicization of society and usurpation of the state-free domain.

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Rik Peeters studied Public Administration at Tilburg University and Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focuses on transformations in the relation between state, society and citizens. He is a researcher and project manager at the Netherlands School of Public Administration and a guest lecturer and researcher at the Tilburg School of Politics and Public Administration.

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Prevention is better than cure. This adage has become an important guideline for the government in recent years. Prevention of terrorist attacks, of recidivism among habitual offenders, of dropouts among problem adolescents, or of obesity among children: the existing repertoires of the constitutional state and the welfare state are complemented by a preventive intervention repertoire in a broad range of policy domains. But what does this transformation imply for our understanding of the state in late-modern society?

This study reconstructs the emergence of 'the preventive gaze' in politics and policymaking and discusses its consequences for the relation between state and society. Prevention seems to be a logical answer in the face of contemporary social issues such as security, education, welfare and public health. However, prevention also has an expansive logic and pushes the state towards an ever more detailed, comprehensive and timely approach to risks. As a consequence, the emergence of the 'prevention state' tends towards a slow and silent politicisation of society and usurpation of the state-free domain.

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Prevention is better than cure. This adage has become an important guideline for the government in recent years. Prevention of terrorist attacks, of recidivism among habitual offenders, of dropouts among problem adolescents, or of obesity among children: the existing repertoires of the constitutional state and the welfare state are complemented by a preventive intervention repertoire in a broad range of policy domains. But what does this transformation imply for our understanding of the state in late-modern society? This study reconstructs the emergence of 'the preventive gaze' in politics and policymaking and discusses its consequences for the relation between state and society. Prevention seems to be a logical answer in the face of contemporary social issues such as security, education, welfare and public health. However, prevention also has an expansive logic and pushes the state towards an ever more detailed, comprehensive and timely approach to risks. As a consequence, the emergence of the 'prevention state' tends towards a slow and silent politicisation of society and usurpation of the state-free domain.

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Verlag
Eleven International Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9490947989
ISBN 13 
9789490947989
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
494
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