Securing 'the homeland' : critical infrastructure, risk and (in)security /
edited by Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Søby Kristensen.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- xv, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- CSS studies in security and international relations .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Securing the homeland : critical infrastructure, risk, and (in)security / Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Søby Kristensen -- 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 heteropolarity / James der Derian and Jesse Finkelstein -- 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.