What is it about?
Vigilance looks at how subjects are called on to participate in the prevention of acts of terrorism in the very processes of their realisation. Rather than preparing for attacks or responding to catastrophe, vigilance is to operate at the same time as the attack so as to stop it.
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Why is it important?
Vigilance adds a novel temporality to how subjects are called on to prevent catastrophes. They do not operate before or after the event, but in it.
Perspectives
The article is the culmination of thinking about process and the event as I travelled around the UK and was 'indoctrinated' into the controversial Prevent Strategy.
Guy Emerson
Universidad de las Americas Puebla
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This page is a summary of: Vigilant subjects, Politics, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0263395717747129.
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