Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things
An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure. After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate security enhancements....
Збережено в:
| Автор: | |
|---|---|
| Формат: | Online |
| Мова: | Англійська |
| Опубліковано: |
The MIT Press
2022
|
| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн доступ: | ONIX_20220221_9780262357777_100 |
| Теги: |
Немає тегів, Будьте першим, хто поставить тег для цього запису!
|
| _version_ | 1869517933121634304 |
|---|---|
| author | Ellis, Ryan |
| author_browse | Ellis, Ryan |
| author_facet | Ellis, Ryan |
| author_sort | Ellis, Ryan |
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure. After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate security enhancements. Infrastructure protection quickly became the multibillion dollar core of a new and expansive homeland security mission. In this book, Ryan Ellis examines how the long shadow of post-9/11 security concerns have remade and reordered infrastructure, arguing that it has been a stunning transformation. Ellis describes the way workers, civic groups, city councils, bureaucrats, and others used the threat of terrorism as a political resource, taking the opportunity not only to address security vulnerabilities but also to reassert a degree of public control over infrastructure. Nearly two decades after September 11, the threat of terrorism remains etched into the inner workings of infrastructures through new laws, regulations, technologies, and practices. Ellis maps these changes through an examination of three U.S. infrastructures: the postal system, the freight rail network, and the electric power grid. He describes, for example, how debates about protecting the mail from anthrax and other biological hazards spiraled into larger arguments over worker rights, the power of large-volume mailers, and the fortunes of old media in a new media world; how environmental activists leveraged post-9/11 security fears over shipments of hazardous materials to take on the rail industry and the chemical lobby; and how otherwise marginal federal regulators parlayed new mandatory cybersecurity standards for the electric power industry into a robust system of accountability. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-78580 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2022 |
| publishDateRange | 2022 |
| publishDateSort | 2022 |
| publisher | The MIT Press |
| publisherStr | The MIT Press |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-785802024-03-30T02:52:42Z Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things Ellis, Ryan Infrastructure security vulnerability risk politics risk assessment 911 deregulation cybersecurity power lines electric grid USPS mail anthrax transportation networks homeland security critical infrastructure TSA regulation detection securitization thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structures thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management::RNFY Energy resources An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure. After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate security enhancements. Infrastructure protection quickly became the multibillion dollar core of a new and expansive homeland security mission. In this book, Ryan Ellis examines how the long shadow of post-9/11 security concerns have remade and reordered infrastructure, arguing that it has been a stunning transformation. Ellis describes the way workers, civic groups, city councils, bureaucrats, and others used the threat of terrorism as a political resource, taking the opportunity not only to address security vulnerabilities but also to reassert a degree of public control over infrastructure. Nearly two decades after September 11, the threat of terrorism remains etched into the inner workings of infrastructures through new laws, regulations, technologies, and practices. Ellis maps these changes through an examination of three U.S. infrastructures: the postal system, the freight rail network, and the electric power grid. He describes, for example, how debates about protecting the mail from anthrax and other biological hazards spiraled into larger arguments over worker rights, the power of large-volume mailers, and the fortunes of old media in a new media world; how environmental activists leveraged post-9/11 security fears over shipments of hazardous materials to take on the rail industry and the chemical lobby; and how otherwise marginal federal regulators parlayed new mandatory cybersecurity standards for the electric power industry into a robust system of accountability. 2022-02-21T15:12:26Z 2022-02-21T15:12:26Z 2020 book ONIX_20220221_9780262357777_100 9780262357777 9780262538541 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78580 eng Infrastructures image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10541.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/10541.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/10541.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262357777 9780262538541 The MIT Press 384 Cambridge open access |
| spellingShingle | Infrastructure security vulnerability risk politics risk assessment 911 deregulation cybersecurity power lines electric grid USPS anthrax transportation networks homeland security critical infrastructure TSA regulation detection securitization thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structures thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management::RNFY Energy resources Ellis, Ryan Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things |
| title | Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things |
| title_full | Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things |
| title_fullStr | Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things |
| title_full_unstemmed | Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things |
| title_short | Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things |
| title_sort | letters power lines and other dangerous things |
| topic | Infrastructure security vulnerability risk politics risk assessment 911 deregulation cybersecurity power lines electric grid USPS anthrax transportation networks homeland security critical infrastructure TSA regulation detection securitization thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structures thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management::RNFY Energy resources |
| topic_facet | Infrastructure security vulnerability risk politics risk assessment 911 deregulation cybersecurity power lines electric grid USPS anthrax transportation networks homeland security critical infrastructure TSA regulation detection securitization thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structures thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management::RNFY Energy resources |
| url | ONIX_20220221_9780262357777_100 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT ellisryan letterspowerlinesandotherdangerousthings |