Risk and Trust in Institutions That Regulate Strategic Technological Innovations: Challenges for a Socially Legitimate Risk Analysis

Rodríguez, Hannot

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21870-0_8

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“…It is legitimised as the correct, commonly approved knowledge method (Aradau and van Munster 2011), which increases the distance between professionals and laypeople such as the ordinary users of infrastructure services, as it becomes increasingly sophisticated and strengthens its position (Gómez, 2015). Laypeople are expected to trust and believe that the security of the systems is in expert hands (Rodríguez, 2015). However, it is worth asking whether these expert hands are tied to established habits of thinking (Aven and Guikema, 2011), and hence have become an instrument for solving the problems tailored to it more and more precisely and subtly.…”

Section: Critical Infrastructure and The Logic Of Creating Securitymentioning

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Intelligent terrorism as a security threat to critical infrastructure

Heino¹

2022

Security and Defence Quarterly

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This paper considers terrorism as potentially ‘intelligent’, as a threat capable of abusing the critical infrastructures of societies and the related methods for knowledge production. Respectively, it sees critical infrastructures as attractive mediums for terrorist influence. The paper describes the contrast between the logic of providing security and certainty for critical infrastructures and the threat of terrorism, which is evolving in terms of its systemic capacities and intelligence. The way security is provided within critical infrastructures and the way intelligent terrorism could operate seem to separate from each other, thereby creating vulnerability. The paper seeks to enhance the conceptual understanding of this question by describing and closing the gap created by the intellectual separation. By doing so, the article will shed light on the conceptual dimension of the (in)security that has gone unnoticed in the interface between critical infrastructures and terrorism. It outlines the aforementioned dilemma and provides conceptual understanding that makes it easier to grasp and communicate further. The paper shows that the intellectual separation has weakened the possibilities for theoretically understanding and practically recognising terrorism as a phenomenon that is becoming systemically more conscious, more intelligent and potentially increasingly capable in a form of violence that exploits the basic structures of societies and the related knowledge methods for its own purposes. As a conclusion, the paper stresses the importance of profoundly critical tools. Such tools are often perceived as being undesirable or even counter-productive in figuring out the mechanism through the very means utilised in providing for security.

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Section: Critical Infrastructure and The Logic Of Creating Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent terrorism as a security threat to critical infrastructure

Heino¹

2022

Security and Defence Quarterly

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Risk and Trust in Institutions That Regulate Strategic Technological Innovations: Challenges for a Socially Legitimate Risk Analysis

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Intelligent terrorism as a security threat to critical infrastructure

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