Essay On SG-Secure
Is SG-Secure the Way to Go?
For SG-Secure, there is indeed two sides of the story. SG-Secure can be understood as an avoidance to the fundamental issues of terrorism. Politically engage the would-be terrorists and understand what do they want and what are they unhappy about. SG-Secure can also be understood as an opportunity to turn the threat of terrorism as an act of catalyst to social resilience. Perhaps what we could do moving on is to take a balanced view of resilience. Resilience as an imagined problem for an imaginative group of responsibilized people could lead an over exaggeration of the problem (O’Malley, 2011 p. 13). On the other hand, He acknowledged that resilience can “provide security to critical infrastructures” (O’Malley, 2013 p. 192). He concluded by asserting that “we should be cautious” of resilience rather than be skeptical of its capability (O’Malley, 2013 p. 192).
Lucia Zedner’s work on the paradoxes of security is particularly useful in understanding the delicate balance employing a resilience framework (Zedner …show more content…
166) noted that “security is posited as a universal good but in fact presumes social exclusion”. Wrongfully identified behaviours can be seen as a threat and fit into the profile mentioned by SG-Secure. As the American clock bomb incident clearly justified the point made (Fantz et al., 2015). Ahmed Mohamed created a digital clock made from a pencil case and was wrongfully arrested for making a bomb. This classic example of racial profiling is not impervious to the resilience framework. The resilience framework exists because it has an identified ‘Us’ and ‘them’. Whatever that is out of the norm may be subjected to the scrutiny of SG-Secure. Resilience then becomes a specific privilege for the mainstream social members with the dominant culture. There is a need to be sensitive and careful about building communal alliances and ensuring these alliances have the right conception of who are the real
For SG-Secure, there is indeed two sides of the story. SG-Secure can be understood as an avoidance to the fundamental issues of terrorism. Politically engage the would-be terrorists and understand what do they want and what are they unhappy about. SG-Secure can also be understood as an opportunity to turn the threat of terrorism as an act of catalyst to social resilience. Perhaps what we could do moving on is to take a balanced view of resilience. Resilience as an imagined problem for an imaginative group of responsibilized people could lead an over exaggeration of the problem (O’Malley, 2011 p. 13). On the other hand, He acknowledged that resilience can “provide security to critical infrastructures” (O’Malley, 2013 p. 192). He concluded by asserting that “we should be cautious” of resilience rather than be skeptical of its capability (O’Malley, 2013 p. 192).
Lucia Zedner’s work on the paradoxes of security is particularly useful in understanding the delicate balance employing a resilience framework (Zedner …show more content…
166) noted that “security is posited as a universal good but in fact presumes social exclusion”. Wrongfully identified behaviours can be seen as a threat and fit into the profile mentioned by SG-Secure. As the American clock bomb incident clearly justified the point made (Fantz et al., 2015). Ahmed Mohamed created a digital clock made from a pencil case and was wrongfully arrested for making a bomb. This classic example of racial profiling is not impervious to the resilience framework. The resilience framework exists because it has an identified ‘Us’ and ‘them’. Whatever that is out of the norm may be subjected to the scrutiny of SG-Secure. Resilience then becomes a specific privilege for the mainstream social members with the dominant culture. There is a need to be sensitive and careful about building communal alliances and ensuring these alliances have the right conception of who are the real