TY - BOOK AU - Dunn Cavelty,Myriam AU - Kristensen,Kristian Søby TI - Securing 'the homeland': critical infrastructure, risk and (in)security SN - 9780415441094 (hardback) AV - HV6431 .S423 2008 U1 - 363.325 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Terrorism KW - Prevention KW - National security KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - Foreign relations N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip085/2007048589.html ER -