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Stephen J. Collier
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What's new (December 2009):
- My article "Topologies of Power: Foucault's Analysis of Political Government beyond 'Governmentality'" is out in Theory, Culture, and Society.
- My review of Bruno Latour's book Reassembling the Social is out in Contemporary Sociology.
- My article with Andrew Lakoff and Paul Rabinow, "Biosecurity: Proposal for an Anthropology of the Contemporary," has been re-published in French in Raison Politiques.
- With Aihwa Ong and Janet Roitman I will be editing a book series entitled "Assembling the Global" with Palgrave Macmillan. Check out the flyer.
- Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question, a volume I co-edited with Andrew Lakoff, is now available from Columbia University Press.
- My chapter with Lakoff entitled "TheVulnerability of Vital Systems" is out in Myriam Dunn and Kristian Kristensen's book Securing the Homeland: Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)security (Routledge, 2008).
- Andrew Lakoff and I presented "On Vital Systems Security" at a University of Helsinki Collegium workshop on Scales of Security -- June 26-27.
- My article "Enacting Catastrophe", which examines new knowledge forms associated with low-probability, high-consequence events, is out in Economy and Society (vol. 37, no. 2).
Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics. Under contract with Princeton University Press.
"Enacting Catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalization." Economy and Society 37(2), 2008, pp. 224-250.
"Distributed Preparedness: Notes on the Genealogy of 'Homeland Security.'" (with Andrew Lakoff). Environment and Planning D: Space and Society 26, 2008, pp. 7-28"Vakuutuskelvottomasta riskistä" uusiin turvallisuuden sommitelmiin (Finnish translation of "From 'Uninsurable Risk" to New Security Assemblages.") Tiede & edistys 33 (1), 2008.
"Notes on the Anthropology of Neoliberalism." (with Lisa Hoffman and Monca DeHart). Anthropology News 47(6), 9-10. 2006.
"Global Assemblages." In Problematizing Global Knowledge. Special issue of Theory, Culture, and Society 23(2-3), 2006, pp. 399-401.
"Beyond the Deficit Model: Welfare in Post-Soviet Georgia" (with Lucan Way). Post Soviet Affairs 20 (July/September), 2004.
"Ethics and the Anthropology of Modern Reason" (with Andrew Lakoff). Anthropological Theory 4(4) 2004.
"Biosecurity: Proposal for an Anthropology of the Contemporary" (with Andrew Lakoff and Paul Rabinow). Anthropology Today 20(5) October 2004.
"Oikos/Anthropos: Technology, Rationality, Infrastructure" (with Aihwa Ong), Current Anthropology, Summer 2003.
Chapters
- "How Infrastructure Became a Security Problem" (with Andrew Lakoff) in Myriam Dunn and Kristian Soby Kristensen, eds.,The Politics of Securing the Homeland: Critical Infrastructure, Risk and Securitisation. Routledge, 2008.
- "Pipes and Wires." In Nigel Thrift, et al. eds. Globalization in Practice. In preparation.
- "Distributed Preparedness: Security, Space-Making, and Citizenship in the United States" (with Andrew Lakoff). In Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, eds. War, Citizenship, and Territory. Routledge, 2007.
- "On Regimes of Living" (with Andrew Lakoff). In Global Assemblages, 2005.
- "Budgets and Bio-politics in Post-Soviet Russia." In Global Assemblages, 2005.
- "Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems" (with Aihwa Ong). In Global Assemblages, 2005.
- "Pipes." In Patterned Ground, edited by Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift, et al., Reaktion Press, 2004.
Working Papers
- "On Vital Systems Security" (with Andrew Lakoff). Berkeley, California: Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (www.anthropos-lab.net), 2006.
- "What is a Laboratory in the Human Sciences" (with Andrew Lakoff and Paul Rabinow). Berkeley, California: Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (www.anthropos-lab.net), 2006.
- "The Spatial Forms and Social Norms of 'Actually Existing Neoliberalism': Toward a Substantive Analytics." GPIA Working Paper 2005-04. Graduate Program in International Affairs. The New School. New York.
- "Local Welfare Regimes, Fiscal Crisis, and Institutional Change in Post-Socialist Georgia." Working Paper, National Council for East European and Eurasian Research, December 2003.