Governing Future Emergencies: Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Risk and Reproblematisation -- 1.3 Methods and the Digital Infrastructure -- 1.4 Chapter Outline -- References -- 2: Genealogies of the Future: The Emergence of Fire Governance in the UK -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Great Fire of London -- 2.3 The Insurance Brigades -- 2.4 A Public Good and Private Enterprise -- 2.5 Fire and War -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Assembling Interfaces to Make Sense of the Future -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The FRS' Digital Infrastructure and Interface -- 3.3 Interface and the Fusion of Cognitive Capacities -- 3.4 Routines and the Unintentional Consequences of Interfaces -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Exercising Uncertainty: Aesthetic Renderings of Future Emergencies -- 4.1 Thinking Aesthetics, Complex Uncertainty and Decentred Performativity -- 4.2 Designing Exercises -- 4.3 Performing Exercises -- 4.4 The 'Realism' of Simulated Futures -- 4.5 Affects, Attunement and Contingency: The Making and Remaking of Protocol -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- 5: Big Data, Subjectification and Preventing Fires -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Bringing Big Data into the Fire and Rescue Service -- 5.3 Governing the Vulnerable Subject Through Prevention -- 5.4 Counter-Conduct, Counter-Subjectification -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- 6: Be Prepared, To Protect: Detournement and the Forces Behind Governmental Logics -- 6.1 Affective Conditions of Preparedness in Fire Governance -- 6.2 Protection and the Elemental Materiality of Security -- 6.3 Orchestrating Relations Through the Regulatory Reform Order (2005) -- 6.4 Conclusion -- References -- 7: Conclusion -- 7.1 Lived Relations to Risk -- 7.2 The Politics of Data and Technology -- 7.3 Times of the Future.