The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of “vital systems” – such as energy, transportation, communication and health – is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.
On this site you can read more about the VSS collaboration, find out about current projects, check out our papers and other publications, or go to our blog.
What’s New:
- 4/2009: Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, edited by Andrew Lakoff, is now in production with Columbia University Press.
- 10/2008: Biosecurity Interventions, edited by Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff, is available for purchase at Columbia University Press.
- 8/2008: Lakoff’s article “The Generic Biothreat” is out in Cultural Anthropology.
- 7/2008: Collier and Lakoff’s chapter “The Vulnerability of Vital Systems: How ‘Critical Infrastructure Became a Security Problem” is out in Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Soby Kristensen’s book Securing ‘the Homeland.’
- 7/2008: Fearnley’s article “Signals Come and Go: Syndromic Surveillance and Styles of Biosecurity” is out in Environment and Planning A.
- 5/2008: Collier’s “Enacting Catastrophe” is out in Economy and Society.
- 1/2008: Working papers by Ozgode and Lindseth on the Office of Emergency Preparedness are now available on the OEP project page.
- 1/2008: Collier and Lakoff’s article “Distributed Preparedness” is out in Environment and Planning D.
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