Vital Systems Security

The following documents related to Vital Systems Security have been produced by participants in the collaboration.

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Forthcoming

• Lyle Fearnley (Forthcoming). Signals Come and Go. Environment and Planning A.
• Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier (Forthcoming). Infrastructure and Event. In Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore, eds., The Stuff of Politics: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life, University of Minnesota Press.
• Andrew Lakoff (Forthcoming). The Generic Biothreat. Accepted for publication in Cultural Anthropology.

2008

• Stephen J. Collier (2008). Enacting Catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalitzation. Economy and Society 37(2), pp. 224-250.
  
• Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff (2008). The Vulnerability of Vital Systems: How ‘Critical Infrastructure’ Became a Security Problem. In Myriam Dunn, ed., The Changing Logics of Risk and Security. Routledge.
• Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff (2008). Distributed Preparedness: Notes on the Genealogy of ‘Homeland Security.’ Environment and Planning D: Space and Society, 26:1.
• Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier, eds. (2008). Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. Columbia University Press.
  

2007

• Andrew Lakoff (2007). Are we prepared for the next disaster? An Interview with Irwin Redlener. Contexts 6, 3.
• Andrew Lakoff (2007). Preparing for the Next Emergency. Public Culture 19.
• Carlo Caduff (2007). The Ferret Assay. ARC Working Paper #6. Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory. (PDF coming soon).

2006

• Andrew Lakoff (2006). Techniques of Preparedness. In Torin Monahan, ed., Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge.
• Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff (2006). Vital Systems Security. ARC Working Paper #2. Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory.
• Dale A. Rose (2006). How Did the Smallpox Vaccination Program Come About? ARC Working Paper #4. Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory.

2005

• Lyle Fearnley (2005). Pathogens and the Strategy of Preparedness. ARC Working Paper #3. Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory.
• Lyle Fearnley (2005). ‘From Chaos to Controlled Disorder’. ARC Working Paper #5. Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory.

2004

• Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff, and Paul Rabinow (2004). Biosecurity: Toward an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Anthropology Today 20(5).