New Environment and Planning A issue

COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY

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.

Environment and Planning A has a new issue out with many articles about biosecurity, including one by Lyle Fearnley on Syndromic Surveillance that draws on work that is familiar to all of us. Here is a table of contents for the issue:

Commentary

Spatiality of risk

Valerie November

Theme issue: Biosecurity: spaces, practices, and boundaries
Guest editors: Nick Bingham, Gareth Enticott, Steve Hinchliffe

Guest editorial

Biosecurity: spaces, practices, and boundaries

Nick Bingham, Gareth Enticott, Steve Hinchliffe

Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity
Steve Hinchliffe, Nick Bingham

Biosecurity after the event: risk politics and animal disease
Andrew Donaldson

The spaces of biosecurity: prescribing and negotiating solutions to bovine tuberculosis
Gareth Enticott

Safe from the wolf: biosecurity, biodiversity, and competing philosophies of nature
Henry Buller

Flexible boundaries in biosecurity: accommodating gorse in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kezia Barker