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.
Recenzijas
'[ This book] provides a thorough, engaging and much overdue account of the key issues at the intersection between critical infrastructure and the field of Security Studies.' Lene Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Foreword Ole Węver . Introduction: Securing the Homeland: Critical
Infrastructure, Risk, and (In)Security Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Sųby
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 Sųby 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
Myriam Dunn Cavelty is lecturer and head of the new risks research unit at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.
Kristian Sųby Kristensen is a PhD candidate working with the Research Unit on Defence and Security at the Danish Institute for International Studies.
