Bio(in)security, scientific expertise, and the politics of post-disarmament in the biological weapons regime

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/26482789:_____/17:N0000147

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.04.015" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.04.015</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.04.015" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.04.015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bio(in)security, scientific expertise, and the politics of post-disarmament in the biological weapons regime

Original language description

The increasing focus on new biological risks and threats together with unsatisfactory progress in international negotiations about biological disarmament have opened up new questions about the further development of the biological weapons regime. The present paper focuses on the politics of biological (post -)disarmament from the perspective of critical security studies and scrutinizes the changing role of scientific experts in relation to the shifting understanding of the threat of bioweapons. Specifically, it argues that the move toward a networked approach to biosecurity governance relying on an increasing role of experts and nonstate actors may be read in the context of a broader insecuritization of biological risks and threats and the evolution of new techniques of government. Drawing on sociological approaches in security studies, the paper unfolds the connections between the construction of biosecurity and the politics of expertise and explores the changing role of scientific experts in biological disarmament. The paper also finds that the attempts to manage bio-insecurity create demand for new types of expertise and empower actors with a specific form of knowledge who can navigate in the changed structural environment, and enable new forms of governing security.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geoforum

ISSN

0016-7185

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

84

Issue of the periodical within the volume

August

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

378-388

UT code for WoS article

000408287000041

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85018793320