Authority, Risk & Violence Reading Retreat

The Authority Research Network hosted a short reading retreat in Alfriston, East Sussex, from 8-12 January 2014. The discussions addressed issues around authority, risk, and violence.

Readings included:

• Amoore, Louise (2013), The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, Duke University Press.
• Luxon, Nancy (2013), Crisis of Authority: Politics, Trust, and Truth-Telling in Freud and Foucault, Cambridge University Press.
• Mbembe, Achille (2001), On the Postcolony, University of California Press.