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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.

Category Archives: security frameworks

Call for Papers: Epidemic Orders

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Carlo Caduff

CALL FOR PAPERS Behemoth – A peer-reviewed journal published by the Akademie Verlag, Berlin Special Issue: Epidemic Orders In the past few years, epidemic events, both actual and virtual, have made a spectacular comeback. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such … Continue reading →

Posted in avian flu, biopolitics, bioscience, catastrophe models, conferences and talks, early warning systems, emergency response, preparedness, risk, security frameworks, swine flu, vital systems | Leave a comment

Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Carlo Caduff
Posted in insurance, preparedness, risk, security frameworks, vital systems | Leave a comment

Introduction: Amelia Moore

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Carlo Caduff
Posted in biopolitics, bioscience, introductions, risk, security frameworks, vital systems | 2 Comments

FMD 2001

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Carlo Caduff
Posted in biopolitics, food safety, risk, security frameworks | 2 Comments

Climate Change Futures

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Carlo Caduff
Posted in biopolitics, bioscience, floods and hurricanes, food safety, insurance, preparedness, risk, security frameworks | 5 Comments

Post-Bush Foreign Policy

Posted on June 19, 2007 by scollier
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ARC [Anthropological Research on the Contemporary] is made possible through a grant from the National Science Foundation.