Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 19-51

  Collier, Stephen j ^a   Lakoff, Andrew ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

beck; biopolitics; disaster; emergency; Foucault; risk; security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924963231     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276413510050     Document Type: Article

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