Enacting catastrophe
Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Collier (0009-0000-0416-5759), Stephen J Collier |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-250 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085140801933280 |
| OpenAlex | W2142896733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 147 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article examines ‘enactment’ as a significant new form of knowledge about collective life that differs fundamentally from familiar forms of ‘social’ knowledge. The emergence of enactment is traced through a series of domains where the problem of estimating the likelihood and consequence of potentially catastrophic future events has been made an explicit object of expert reflection: response to a possible nuclear attack in US civil defence planning in the late 1940s; the emergence of natural hazard modelling in the 1960s and 1970s; and the emergence today of terrorism risk assessment and its proposed application to federal budgetary distributions. The article engages with central questions in debates around ‘risk society’ and insurance, holding that new approaches to understanding and assessing risk are not merely idiosyncratic or subjective. Rather, they should be treated as coherent new forms of knowledge and practice whose genealogy and present assemblies must be traced
Actuarial science · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Object (grammar · Political science · Positive economics · Preparedness · Rationalization (economics · Sociology · Terrorism · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Risk Perception and Management · Law
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In Defense of Reading
Aufbruch ins Unversicherbare
Finanza, welfare e governo dell’incertezza
Cultura dell’avidità vs. cultura meridiana nella crisi Xylella
House and contents underinsurance
Fifty years of scholarly research on terrorism
“We Must Not Be Caught Sleeping.” Pandemic Futures, the WHO, and Global Preparedness Plans in the 1990s and Early 2000s
Foundation and Development of Natural Catastrophe Modeling
Power of Standards
Governing uncertainty, producing subjectivity
Security Aesthetics of and Beyond the Biopolitical
Disaster Insurance Reimagined
The Anthropologization of Energy
A Climate for Investors. Climate Scenarios in the Network for Greening the Financial System
Profiteering from Disaster
The imaginary as method. “Lyrical sociology” as a heuristic of sociological description
Del Control a la biomonitorización
Drones y epidemologia
Performing (In)securities in West Africa
Drones and epidemiology
Att iscensätta apokalypsen
Observación sindrómica. Gestión de la vida en el Siglo XXI
Security after Risk
Is the Normal Accidents perspective falsifiable
What makes minerals critical? Problematizing sovereignty in times of crisis
Anticipating futures through enactments of expertise
Energy information infrastructures
On the milieu of security
Emergency, preparedness, and UK global health policy following the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic
Performativity and the project
The riskscapes of re/insurance
After virtù and fortuna
A game of futures
The Global Regulatory Consequences of an Irrational Crisis
Governing global challenges through quantified futures
The epidemiological factor
Financial Globalisation’ and the ‘Crisis’
The Time/Space of Preparedness
The Haptic Space of Disaster
Exercising emergencies
The technopolitics of security
The past shall not begin
Anticipating emergencies
Preempting the next disaster
Biosecurity as a boundary object
The global governance of security and finance
Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security
Emergent emergency response
Governing (through) anticipation, architecture, affect
Collisions Between Institutional and Populist Risk Imaginaries
Infrastructures of Pacification
Bad Weather
Responsibility and nanotechnology
Model migration and rough edges
Anticipatory logics of the smart city’s global imaginary
Introduction
Governing As If the Future Obliged the Present
Stress-Testing Europe
Navigating futures
One size does not fit all
Security and the future
Data, interface, security
Miami Beach forever? Urbanism in the back loop
Catastrophe bonds and financial risk
Insurance as catastrophe
Rehearsing for the Plague
On resistance in human geography
Banking supervision and the politics of verification
C-change? Geographies of crisis
Insurance as maladaptation
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Futureproof
Protocol and the post-human performativity of security techniques
Survival Is Your Business
Practicing Uncertainty
Situational awareness across different temporalities
The business of protection
Disowning Fukushima
The birth of cyberwar
Governing events and life
Adapting to the Anthropocene
From preparedness to risk
Making financial uncertainty count
Planning for the worst
Understanding Catastrophe Insurance as a Commons
That's Not Fair! Navigating the Duality of Fairness in Insurance
Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency
Biosecurity
Futures in the Making
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Risky Data' for Inclusive Microinsurance Infrastructures
Adopting the Position of Error
Affect and Security
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Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation
A dignidade das pertenças e os limites do neoliberalismo
The state and the state-of-the-art
Catastrophic fixes
On Shaky Ground
The Taming of Chance
Global Assemblages
Powers of Freedom
Economy and Society
Style' for historians and philosophers
Governmentality
Security, Territory, Population
Second modernity as a research agenda
Distributed Preparedness
The Oosterschelde Storm Surge Barrier
Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity
Preparing for the Next Emergency
From Industrial Society to the Risk Society
The Terrorist Threat
Governing through risk and uncertainty
Catastrophe risk, insurance and terrorism
Governable catastrophes
Catastrophe risk
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 147 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 145 |