Anthropological Research on the Contemporary is devoted to collaborative inquiry into contemporary forms of life, labor and language.

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Work in the collaboration has focused on civil defense, strategic bombing, vulnerability assessment, public health preparedness, pandemic disease, emergency response, scenario planning, domestic security, insurance, natural disasters, and risk. Major projects include a workshop at SSRC that will produce a collected volume on The Problem of Biosecurity, and a book currently being researched by Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier entitled On Vital Systems Security.

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