Securing 'the homeland'
Subtitle: critical infrastructure, risk and (in)security
By: edited by Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Søby Kristensen.
Contributors: Dunn Cavelty, Myriam.; Kristensen, Kristian Søby.
Series: CSS studies in security and international relations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780415441094; 9780203092651
Subjects: Terrorism -- Prevention; National security; United States -- Politics and government; United States -- Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Securing the homeland : critical infrastructure, risk, and (in)security / Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Søby Kristensen; title: The vulnerability of vital systems : how 'critical infrastructure' became a security problem / Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff; title: Like a phoenix from the ashes : the reinvention of critical infrastructure protection as distributed security / Myriam Dunn Cavelty; title: 'The absolute protection of our citizens' : critical infrastructure protection and the practice of security / Kristian Søby Kristensen; title: Critical infrastructures and network pathologies : the semiotics and biopolitics of heteropolarity / James der Derian and Jesse Finkelstein; title: Media, fear and the hyperreal : the construction of cyberterrorism as the ultimate threat to critical infrastructures / Maura Conway; title: Homeland security  through traceability : technologies of control as critical infrastructures / Philippe Bonditti; title: The gendered narratives of homeland security : anarchy at the front door makes home a haven / Elgin M. Brunner; title: Conclusion : The biopolitics of critical infrastructure protection / Julian Reid.