Stuart Price
- Affiliation: De Montfort University
Stuart Price is reader in media discourse and principal lecturer in media, film and journalism at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of Brute Reality (2010), Discourse Power Address (2007), and a number of other books on media and communication theory. He produced one of the few academic analyses of the Stockwell shooting, for Boehmer and Morton’s Terror and the Postcolonial (2010), and is particularly interested in the development of the Western ‘security regime’.
Books by Stuart Price
Worst-Case Scenario?
Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
Stuart Price
In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime–the worst-case scenario. This consists of the projection of a significant material threat, made by an authoritative or executive power, used to bolster the security agenda of the neo-liberal state. This in turn has altered the conduct of military and police operations, which are increasingly directed against any substantial expression of dissent… (more information)