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- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Infrastructures
- Uniform Title
- Infrastructures series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Contents
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things -- The Political Origins of Infrastructure Vulnerability: Regulation and Deregulation Revisited -- Ubiquitous Targets: Infrastructure Security after September 11 -- Theoretical Foundations: Making Sense of Infrastructure -- Theoretical Foundations: Making Sense of Risk -- The Structure of the Book -- I: The Political Origins of Infrastructure Vulnerability -- 1. Stumbling toward Resilience: The Overlooked Virtues of Regulation
- Normal Accidents: Complex Networks, Tight Coupling, and Failure -- The Postal System: Regulation and Distributed Control -- Regulating the Railroads: Redundancy and the Unintended Benefits of Rate Policy -- A Network of Networks: Electric Power, Regulation, and Control -- Stumbling toward Resilience: Revisiting and Rethinking Infrastructure Regulation -- 2. The Political Origins of Infrastructure Vulnerability: The Hidden Vices of Deregulation -- Deregulating Postal Service: Modernization, Information and Communication Technologies, and Vulnerability -- Railroad Deregulation: Salvation and Risk
- The Deregulation of Electric Power: Tight Coupling and Complexity -- The Political Origins of Infrastructure Vulnerability -- II: Ubiquitous Targets: Infrastructure Security after September 11 -- 3. Imagination Unbound: Risk, Politics, and Post-9/11 Anxiety -- Ubiquitous Targets: Rethinking and Reframing Infrastructure -- The Cultural Construction of Infrastructure Vulnerability: A Partial History -- Institutionalizing Infrastructure Security: The Creation of the Department of Homeland Security -- The Politics of Risk: The Radical Possibilities of a Promiscuous Resource
- Infrastructure Inversion and the Politics of Post-9/11 Security -- 4. Infected Mail: Labor, Commerce, and the 2001 Anthrax Attacks -- Old Fears and New Challenges: The 2001 Anthrax Attacks and the Limits of Planning -- Searching for Security: Risk and Infrastructure Publics -- The Sunk Politics of Biohazard Security -- 5. Green Security: The Environmental Movement, the Transportation of Hazardous Materials, and the War on Terror -- From Safety to Security: Hazardous Materials Regulation in Historical Perspective -- Rethinking Rail Security after 9/11: Preparing for a "Big Bang"
- Risk Coalitions: Rerouting, Preemption, and the War on Terror -- The Politics of Green Security -- 6. Regulating Cybersecurity: The Unexpected Remaking of Electric Power -- Reforming Electric Power: The Electric Power Industry Makes Its Case-and Gets Nowhere -- The August 2003 Blackout: Revisiting Electric Power -- The Energy Policy Act of 2005: Reforms-Intended and Otherwise -- Public Accountability and Security -- Conclusion: The Politics of Critical Infrastructure Protection -- Recovering the Sunk Politics of Infrastructure: The Importance of Historical Thinking
- ISBN
- OCLC
- om380390179
- Author
Ellis, Ryan, author.
- Title
Letters, power lines, and other dangerous things : the politics of infrastructure security / Ryan Ellis.
- Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Infrastructures
Infrastructures series.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Source of description
Print version record.
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
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Print version: Ellis, Ryan. Letters, power lines, and other dangerous things. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] 9780262538541 (DLC) 2019025809