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SUMMARY:Governing Events: Emergencies and the Fragile Promise of the State
  - Dr Ben Anderson\, Department of Geography\, Durham University 
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DESCRIPTION:What do events and conditions become when they are governed as
  emergencies? And how does the (neo)liberal ‘emergency state’ relate t
 o and govern through events? Drawing on scenes from a genealogy of how eme
 rgencies have been governed in the UK since 1945\, the paper will explore 
 how emergencies\, whether actual or anticipated\, have served as affective
  and material occasions in which the hope and promise of the state is plac
 ed in question. Associated with the enactment of forms of mediatised accla
 mation and glorification as contemporary forms of sovereignty intensify in
  response to events\, emergencies are also\, at the same time\, occasions 
 in which the failed\, delayed\, or incompetent state materialises and the 
 promise of the continuation or optimisation of life becomes fragile\, fade
 s or ends. The paper explores what this means for how we think about the s
 tate and its relation with events in the midst of multiple crises by honin
 g in on a series of affective scenes in which a nervous ‘emergency state
 ’ surfaces animated by doubt\, worry\, and concern\; an exchange of lett
 ers between government departments as changes to emergency legislation are
  deliberated\, a Parliamentary debate about emergency powers\, a control r
 oom that has detected an anomaly\, an exercise that appears to be going wr
 ong.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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