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"Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel like, what lives we might live in them and what choices we might have to make to get there."--

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Becoming Aerial. Birth of the Aerial Body -- The Projection and Performance of Airspace -- Governing Aerial Life. Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics -- Profiling Machines -- Aerial Aggression. Aerial Environments -- Subjects under Siege -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Aerial Life -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Prologue -- Overview -- Aerial Life -- Powering Up Aerial Geographies -- The Organization of the Book -- Part One Becoming Aerial -- 2 Birth of the Aerial Body -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- 'Handsome Is as Handsome Does': Disassembling the Aerial Body -- The Flesh of the Aerial Youth -- Simulation -- Conclusion -- 3 The Projection and Performance of Airspace -- Introduction -- Building a Political Space: Identity, Boundedness and the Sanctity of Territory -- Undoing Aerial Space: Post-nationalism and Projective Power -- Conclusion -- Part Two Governing Aerial Life -- 4 Aerial Views: Bodies, Borders and Biopolitics -- Introduction -- Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Targeting, Administering and Managing Populations -- Techniques of the Observer/Observed -- Three-Dimensional Vision -- Conclusion -- 5 Profi ling Machines -- Introduction -- Imagining the Pilot/Passenger -- Sorting -- Modifying -- Conclusion -- Part Three Aerial Aggression -- 6 Aerial Environments -- Introduction -- The Emergence of a Target -- Systems, Circulations and Ecological Warfare -- Air Conditioning -- Conclusion -- 7 Subjects under Siege -- Warning -- Introduction -- The Anatomy of Panic -- Imaginations and Urgencies -- Vigilance and the Social as Circuit -- Entrainment -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Environments -- Futures -- Aerial Turns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this article, we examine contemporary 'resilience' through UK preparedness – an apparatus of security enacted under the legal and organizational principles of UK Civil Contingencies and civil protection legislation and practices. By examining the design, practices and technologies that constitute the exercises performed within Civil Contingencies, the article first suggests that the manner in which exercises have been mobilized as examples of preparedness and apocalyptical imaginations of the 'unthinkable' should be understood within the highly specific societal and political contexts that shape them. More substantially, the article then provides a nuanced understanding of the life of the security assemblage through an in-depth analysis of the exercise and its design, materials, play and contingent relations. Seeking to deepen and widen concerns for what matters in security studies, animated by concern for objects, bodily affects, contingencies and excess, the article contends for a more serious concern with how security and its practices can surprise, shock, enthral and disrupt in a manner that need not only be associated with failure.