Name: The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security: 25 (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology, 25)
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Author: Collier, Stephen J. ; Lakoff, Andrew
ISBN: 9780691199283

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The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security: 25 (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology, 25)

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Physical Book

Author

Stephen J. Collier

Andrew Lakoff

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.5 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.70 kg.

ISBN13

9780691199283

Synopsis "The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security: 25 (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology, 25) "

The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From 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.

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