The Government of Emergency (eBook)

Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security

Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
480 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22888-4 (ISBN)

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The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials approach them in common terms: as future events that threaten to disrupt the vital, vulnerable systems upon which modern life depends.The Government of Emergency tells the story of how this now taken-for-granted way of understanding and managing emergencies arose. Amid the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, an array of experts and officials working in obscure government offices developed a new understanding of the nation as a complex of vital, vulnerable systems. They invented technical and administrative devices to mitigate the nation's vulnerability, and organized a distinctive form of emergency government that would make it possible to prepare for and manage potentially catastrophic events.Through these conceptual and technical inventions, Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff argue, vulnerability was defined as a particular kind of problem, one that continues to structure the approach of experts, officials, and policymakers to future emergencies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b/w illus. 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: act of god • advisory board • Aftermath of the September 11 attacks • Aid • Airpower • Amendment • Area of Responsibility • authoritarianism • Board of Economic Warfare • Cataclysm (Dragonlance) • Catastrophe modeling • catastrophism • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • central intelligence • Chlorine • civil defense • climate change • Climate Risk • Collective Security • Conscription • Constitution • Constitutional Dictatorship • Contemporary Society • contexts • Continuity of Government • Corrective and preventive action • Critical Infrastructure • Critical Infrastructure Protection • curtailment • Decree • Defense Production Act • defensive war • Demobilization • Demography • Detonation • Devolution • Dictatorship • disaster • Disaster Response • Economics • economy • editorial • Emergency communication system • Emergency Evacuation • emergency management • Emergency preparedness • Emergency shelter • Enemy Objectives Unit • energy crisis • Executive (government) • Executive Order • Expense • Federal Civil Defense Administration • Federal Emergency Management Agency • Federal government of the United States • Federal Works Agency • Financial Crisis • foreign policy • Gaither Report • General Contractor • General Services Administration • Governing (magazine) • government agency • government office • Harold Huglin • high pressure • Homeland Security • Humanitarian aid • impose • Incendiary device • Infrastructure • Institution • Interconnection • interdependence • Internal Security • Korean War • Lawrence Klein • Legislation • Lend-lease • liberal democracy • Manufacturing • Martial Law • Mass production • medical emergency • mercantilism • Militarism • militarization • military history • Military Strategy • mobilization • Modernity • Money Supply • Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center • Mutual aid (emergency services) • national security • National Security Resources Board • National Security Strategy (United States) • natural disaster • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Obligation • Office for Emergency Management • Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization • Office of Defense Mobilization • Office of Emergency Management • Office of Emergency Planning (Ireland) • Office of the Secretary of Defense • Pamphlet • panic buying • Paul Rabinow • Planning • Policy • Politics • Preparedness • Principal Component Analysis • Probability • problematization • procurement • progressivism • Provision (contracting) • public administration • Public Works Administration • Ramp up • receipt • Reflexive Modernization • reinsurance • Reprisal • Requirement • Risk Management • Scarcity • Scenario Planning • Securitization • security agency • Separation of Powers • Sovereignty • Sputnik crisis • State Government • state of emergency • Strategic Intelligence • Strategic National Stockpile • Supply (economics) • Task Force • Technology • terrorism • Total War • Total War (series) • Ulrich Beck • United States civil defense • United States Department of Homeland Security • vulnerability • vulnerability assessment • Vulnerability (computing) • War and the Future • war economy • War Finance Corporation • War Powers Resolution • War Production Board • Weimar Republic • Westphalian Sovereignty • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22888-4 / 0691228884
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22888-4 / 9780691228884