Containing the spectacle: disaster management
Containing the spectacle: disaster management
Interpreting security as the effacement of mortality enables us to dramatically broaden the scope of research to include non-anticipatory temporalities of security. In this chapter, present-tense emergency management is exposed as a technique of mortality effacement. States efface the trauma of mortality and re-establish security by performing the rituals of emergency management: erecting cordons, organising the triage of bodies, and reconciling bodies with their previous living identities (‘disaster victim identification’). Disaster response is a reconstitutive performance of security and sovereignty against the incursion of death and trauma.
Keywords: Emergency Management, Disaster Response, Death, Mortality, Security, Trauma, Triage, Disaster victim identification, Cordon
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