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58. Suspicion et exception

Suspicion and exception
été 2005
Sous la direction de Didier Bigo


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Crédits : Cultures & Conflits
222 pages - 21 €
ISBN 2-7475-8911-0
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Sur fond de "guerre globale au terrorisme", les doctrines de sécurité nationale se nourrissent des logiques de l'exception où la sécurité devient la valeur clé, reléguant ainsi la liberté et la justice à d'autres temps. Privilégiant une compréhension des politiques antiterroristes et de leurs effets sur la cohésion sociale, ce numéro apporte un éclairage renouvelé de ces "réponses" politiques qui conduisent, sous couvert d'une conception extensive de l'urgence, à faire de la suspicion une "certitude" et de cette certitude une "preuve" de la culpabilité.

In the current context of the "global war against terrorism", the doctrines of national security are being extended to the whole of the world. They are one of the dimensions of the new dynamics of exception putting security in the forefront as the most central value, thus relegating liberty and justice to past times. Through the presentation of the research initiated by three teams of the European programme ELISE (European Liberty and Security), this new issue of Cultures & Conflits tries to shed new light on these security dynamics. It tries to rearticulate the relations between practices of exception and logics of enmity and suspicion. This issue replaces the current focus on the analysis of the 9/11 attacks and the finding of an easily accessible explanation by a focus on the understanding of antiterrorist policies and of their consequences on social cohesion. Thus the contributions of this issue shed new and more critical light on these political “responses” that lead some to present as “new” what is not. They show that by adopting a very broad definition of emergency, these responses transform suspicion into a “certainty” and this “certainty” into a proof of guiltiness.