ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses upon how ideas of preparedness and anticipation, as part of broader resilience approaches, were increasingly adopted by urban security professionals as they sought to operationalise integrated security planning at the city scale. First, drawing on established ideas of securitisation that sees democratic societies increasingly governed by and through security, the chapter highlights how new security rhetorics and discourses based on the need for a resilient homeland emerged and were institutionalised at national and local scales. Second, the policy and practice implications of this ‘resilience turn’ in counterterrorism are unpacked, drawing particular attention towards the governance of preparatory and anticipatory measures. How resilience ideas fed into counterterrorism policy is further examined through examples from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and mainland Europe. Third, the civic impacts of such measures are underscored, with a particular emphasis placed on problematising the balance between enhanced security measures and civil liberties. Here resilience is viewed as both a collective concern where multiple stakeholders, rather than just the security services alone, were given responsibility for ensuring security, as well as becoming increasingly focused on developing pre-emptive solutions to inevitable and existential security threats.
