Myriam Anna Dunn, Kristian Søby Kristensen

Securing 'the Homeland'

Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume uses a 'constructivist/reflexive' approach to address critical infrastructure protection (CIP), a central political practice associated with national security. The politics of CIP, and the construction of the threat they are meant to counter, effectively establish a powerful discursive connection between that the traditional and normal conditions for day-to-day politics and the exceptional dynamics of national security. Combining political theory and empirical case studies, this volume addresses key issues related to protection and the governance of insecurity in the contemporary world. The contributors track the transformation and evolution of critical infrastructures (and closely related issues of homeland security) into a security problem, and analyze how practices associated with CIP constitute, and are an expression of, changing notions of security and insecurity. The book explores aspects of 'securitisation' as well as at practices, audiences, and contexts that enable and constrain the production of the specific form of governmentality that CIP exemplifies. It also explores the rationalities at play, the effects of these security practices, and the implications for our understanding of security and politics today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415441094
• ISBN-10: 0415441099
• Artikelnr.: 24427815

Autorenporträt

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is lecturer and head of the new risks research unit at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. Kristian Søby Kristensen is a PhD candidate working with the Research Unit on Defence and Security at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Ole Wæver . Introduction: Securing the Homeland: Critical
Infrastructure, Risk, and (In)Security Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian
Søby Kristensen Part 1: Origins, Conceptions, and the Public-Private
Rationale The Vulnerability of Vital Systems: How 'Critical Infrastructure'
Became a Security Problem Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff. Like a
Phoenix from the Ashes: The Reinvention of Critical Infrastructure
Protection as Distributed Security Myriam Dunn Cavelty. 'The Absolute
Protection of our Citizens': Critical Infrastructure Protection and the
Practice of Security Kristian Søby Kristensen. Critical Infrastructures and
Network Pathologies: The Semiotics and Biopolitics of a Heteropolar World
Order James Der Derian and Jesse Finkelstein. Part 2: Terrorism and the
Politics of Protecting the Homeland Media, Fear, and the Hyperreal: The
Construction of Cyberterrorism as the Ultimate Threat to Critical
Infrastructures Maura Conway. Homeland Security Through Traceability:
Technologies of Control as Critical Infrastructures Philippe Bonditti. The
Gendered Narratives of Homeland Security: Anarchy at the Front Door Makes
Home a Haven Elgin M. Brunner. Conclusion: The Biopolitics of Critical
Infrastructure Protection Julian Reid