J Collier
Biographic Data
| ID | 15995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Collier |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Collier |
| SIGNATURE | COLLIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-0416-5759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 868 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The disaster contradiction of contemporary capitalism: Resilience, vital systems security, and ‘post-neoliberalism
Revisiting ‘resilience: Politics and State Practices in a New Conjuncture
Insurance and the "Irrationalization" of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk
In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of "climate crisis" (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as "Acts of God" that should be a collective responsibility, or as the result of decisions that can be attributed to indi…
Design in government: City planning, space-making, and urban politics
In recent years, design has appeared in an ever-broadening range of government processes and projects, particularly in cities. What has design become, such that its methods and practices could be applied to urban planning and public administration? And what are the governmental problems that design methods and designers are being mobilized to address? This article answers these questions by tracing the tangled intersections of design, city planni…
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change
This paper examines the growing importance of private insurance in urban resilience, drawing on research in three US cities that are bellwethers of climate adaptation: New Orleans, New York and Greater Miami. A number of scholars have suggested that insurance shifts the management of climate risks from governments to private actors and places the burden of risk on the shoulders of individuals. Drawing on and extending Michel Callon’s work on the …
Climate change and insurance
This special collection examines insurance as an increasingly central mechanism in shaping how the effects of climate change are transforming local economies and ways of life. The papers study a range of exemplary cases, ranging from agricultural micro-insurance in development policy and regional sovereign risk facilities in the Caribbean to public and private insurance in the United States. This framing essay situates these papers in a longer tr…
Interventions on design and political geography
Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency
This article describes the historical emergence of vital systems security, analyzing it as a significant mutation in biopolitical modernity. The story begins in the early 20th century, when planners and policy-makers recognized the increasing dependence of collective life on interlinked systems such as transportation, electricity, and water. Over the following decades, new security mechanisms were invented to mitigate the vulnerability of these v…
Neoliberalism as big Leviathan, or … ? A response to Wacquant and Hilgers: Neoliberalism as Big Leviathan, Or
Topologias de poder: "A análise de Foucault sobre o governo político para além da "governamentalidade
A publicação das conferências de Michel Foucault no Collége de France, no final da década de 1970, proporcionou uma nova compreensão sobre desenvolvimentos cruciais em sua obra tardia, inclusive o retorno a uma análise do Estado e a introdução da biopolítica como um tema central. Segundo uma interpretação dominante, essas mudanças não acarretaram uma ruptura metodológica fundamental; o enfoque desenvolvido por Foucault em seu trabalho sobre conhe…
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory
Topologies of Power: Foucault’s Analysis of Political Government beyond ‘Governmentality’
The publication of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in the late 1970s has provided new insight into crucial developments in his late work, including the return to an analysis of the state and the introduction of biopolitics as a central theme. According to one dominant interpretation, these shifts did not entail a fundamental methodological break; the approach Foucault developed in his work on knowledge/power was simply applied…
Article Retiré: La Biosécurité. Vers une Anthropologie du Contemporain
Cet article, qui a comme objet d'étude la biosécurité, représente un essai d'anthropologie du contemporain. Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, la préparation pour parer à une éventuelle menace bio-terroriste est devenue un élément important du dispositif de sécurité des Etats-Unis. Les auteurs considèrent que cette situation n'est pas seulement une donnée, mais aussi un problème. Ils se proposent d'utiliser les outils analytiques de l'observation…
Distributed Preparedness: The Spatial Logic of Domestic Security in the United States
This paper examines the genealogy of domestic security in the United States through an analysis of post-World War II civil defense. Specifically, we describe the development of an organizational framework and set of techniques for approaching security threats that we call 'distributed preparedness'. Distributed preparedness was initially articulated in civil defense programs in the early stages of the Cold War, when US government planners began t…
Enacting catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalization
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 pl…
Global Assemblages
Beyond the Deficit Model: Social Welfare in Post-Soviet Georgia
Two researchers examine several crucial features of the transformation of Soviet welfare provision in post-Soviet Georgia. Institutional analysis and household surveys in two industrial cities in Georgia are used to identify determinants of distribution and access to three sectors of social welfare: water, heat, and education. The data are used to develop a multidimensional conceptional framework for change
Ethics and the anthropology of modern reason
In recent years, anthropologists have shown increasing interest in scientific, technical and administrative systems and their political regulation. In what follows, we suggest that a major concern in much of this work is a common interest in how, in relationship to these technical and political developments, 'living' has been rendered problematic. In the first part of this article, we suggest that these strands of anthropological investigation ca…
Biosecurity: Towards an anthropology of the contemporary
Oikos/Anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure
Topologies of Power: Foucault’s Analysis of Political Government beyond ‘Governmentality’
The publication of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in the late 1970s has provided new insight into crucial developments in his late work, including the return to an analysis of the state and the introduction of biopolitics as a central theme. According to one dominant interpretation, these shifts did not entail a fundamental methodological break; the approach Foucault developed in his work on knowledge/power was simply applied…
Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency
This article describes the historical emergence of vital systems security, analyzing it as a significant mutation in biopolitical modernity. The story begins in the early 20th century, when planners and policy-makers recognized the increasing dependence of collective life on interlinked systems such as transportation, electricity, and water. Over the following decades, new security mechanisms were invented to mitigate the vulnerability of these v…
Enacting catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalization
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 pl…
Distributed Preparedness: The Spatial Logic of Domestic Security in the United States
This paper examines the genealogy of domestic security in the United States through an analysis of post-World War II civil defense. Specifically, we describe the development of an organizational framework and set of techniques for approaching security threats that we call 'distributed preparedness'. Distributed preparedness was initially articulated in civil defense programs in the early stages of the Cold War, when US government planners began t…
Biosecurity: Towards an anthropology of the contemporary
Ethics and the anthropology of modern reason
In recent years, anthropologists have shown increasing interest in scientific, technical and administrative systems and their political regulation. In what follows, we suggest that a major concern in much of this work is a common interest in how, in relationship to these technical and political developments, 'living' has been rendered problematic. In the first part of this article, we suggest that these strands of anthropological investigation ca…
Global Assemblages
Climate change and insurance
This special collection examines insurance as an increasingly central mechanism in shaping how the effects of climate change are transforming local economies and ways of life. The papers study a range of exemplary cases, ranging from agricultural micro-insurance in development policy and regional sovereign risk facilities in the Caribbean to public and private insurance in the United States. This framing essay situates these papers in a longer tr…
Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change
This paper examines the growing importance of private insurance in urban resilience, drawing on research in three US cities that are bellwethers of climate adaptation: New Orleans, New York and Greater Miami. A number of scholars have suggested that insurance shifts the management of climate risks from governments to private actors and places the burden of risk on the shoulders of individuals. Drawing on and extending Michel Callon’s work on the …
Oikos/Anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure
Beyond the Deficit Model: Social Welfare in Post-Soviet Georgia
Two researchers examine several crucial features of the transformation of Soviet welfare provision in post-Soviet Georgia. Institutional analysis and household surveys in two industrial cities in Georgia are used to identify determinants of distribution and access to three sectors of social welfare: water, heat, and education. The data are used to develop a multidimensional conceptional framework for change
Interventions on design and political geography
Topologias de poder: "A análise de Foucault sobre o governo político para além da "governamentalidade
A publicação das conferências de Michel Foucault no Collége de France, no final da década de 1970, proporcionou uma nova compreensão sobre desenvolvimentos cruciais em sua obra tardia, inclusive o retorno a uma análise do Estado e a introdução da biopolítica como um tema central. Segundo uma interpretação dominante, essas mudanças não acarretaram uma ruptura metodológica fundamental; o enfoque desenvolvido por Foucault em seu trabalho sobre conhe…
The disaster contradiction of contemporary capitalism: Resilience, vital systems security, and ‘post-neoliberalism
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory
Design in government: City planning, space-making, and urban politics
In recent years, design has appeared in an ever-broadening range of government processes and projects, particularly in cities. What has design become, such that its methods and practices could be applied to urban planning and public administration? And what are the governmental problems that design methods and designers are being mobilized to address? This article answers these questions by tracing the tangled intersections of design, city planni…
Revisiting ‘resilience: Politics and State Practices in a New Conjuncture
Insurance and the "Irrationalization" of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk
In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of "climate crisis" (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as "Acts of God" that should be a collective responsibility, or as the result of decisions that can be attributed to indi…
Oikos/Anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure
Beyond the Deficit Model: Social Welfare in Post-Soviet Georgia
Two researchers examine several crucial features of the transformation of Soviet welfare provision in post-Soviet Georgia. Institutional analysis and household surveys in two industrial cities in Georgia are used to identify determinants of distribution and access to three sectors of social welfare: water, heat, and education. The data are used to develop a multidimensional conceptional framework for change
Ethics and the anthropology of modern reason
In recent years, anthropologists have shown increasing interest in scientific, technical and administrative systems and their political regulation. In what follows, we suggest that a major concern in much of this work is a common interest in how, in relationship to these technical and political developments, 'living' has been rendered problematic. In the first part of this article, we suggest that these strands of anthropological investigation ca…
Biosecurity: Towards an anthropology of the contemporary
Global Assemblages
Article Retiré: La Biosécurité. Vers une Anthropologie du Contemporain
Cet article, qui a comme objet d'étude la biosécurité, représente un essai d'anthropologie du contemporain. Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, la préparation pour parer à une éventuelle menace bio-terroriste est devenue un élément important du dispositif de sécurité des Etats-Unis. Les auteurs considèrent que cette situation n'est pas seulement une donnée, mais aussi un problème. Ils se proposent d'utiliser les outils analytiques de l'observation…
Distributed Preparedness: The Spatial Logic of Domestic Security in the United States
This paper examines the genealogy of domestic security in the United States through an analysis of post-World War II civil defense. Specifically, we describe the development of an organizational framework and set of techniques for approaching security threats that we call 'distributed preparedness'. Distributed preparedness was initially articulated in civil defense programs in the early stages of the Cold War, when US government planners began t…
Enacting catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalization
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 pl…
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory
Topologies of Power: Foucault’s Analysis of Political Government beyond ‘Governmentality’
The publication of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in the late 1970s has provided new insight into crucial developments in his late work, including the return to an analysis of the state and the introduction of biopolitics as a central theme. According to one dominant interpretation, these shifts did not entail a fundamental methodological break; the approach Foucault developed in his work on knowledge/power was simply applied…
Topologias de poder: "A análise de Foucault sobre o governo político para além da "governamentalidade
A publicação das conferências de Michel Foucault no Collége de France, no final da década de 1970, proporcionou uma nova compreensão sobre desenvolvimentos cruciais em sua obra tardia, inclusive o retorno a uma análise do Estado e a introdução da biopolítica como um tema central. Segundo uma interpretação dominante, essas mudanças não acarretaram uma ruptura metodológica fundamental; o enfoque desenvolvido por Foucault em seu trabalho sobre conhe…
Neoliberalism as big Leviathan, or … ? A response to Wacquant and Hilgers: Neoliberalism as Big Leviathan, Or
Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency
This article describes the historical emergence of vital systems security, analyzing it as a significant mutation in biopolitical modernity. The story begins in the early 20th century, when planners and policy-makers recognized the increasing dependence of collective life on interlinked systems such as transportation, electricity, and water. Over the following decades, new security mechanisms were invented to mitigate the vulnerability of these v…
Interventions on design and political geography
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change
This paper examines the growing importance of private insurance in urban resilience, drawing on research in three US cities that are bellwethers of climate adaptation: New Orleans, New York and Greater Miami. A number of scholars have suggested that insurance shifts the management of climate risks from governments to private actors and places the burden of risk on the shoulders of individuals. Drawing on and extending Michel Callon’s work on the …
Climate change and insurance
This special collection examines insurance as an increasingly central mechanism in shaping how the effects of climate change are transforming local economies and ways of life. The papers study a range of exemplary cases, ranging from agricultural micro-insurance in development policy and regional sovereign risk facilities in the Caribbean to public and private insurance in the United States. This framing essay situates these papers in a longer tr…
Design in government: City planning, space-making, and urban politics
In recent years, design has appeared in an ever-broadening range of government processes and projects, particularly in cities. What has design become, such that its methods and practices could be applied to urban planning and public administration? And what are the governmental problems that design methods and designers are being mobilized to address? This article answers these questions by tracing the tangled intersections of design, city planni…
The disaster contradiction of contemporary capitalism: Resilience, vital systems security, and ‘post-neoliberalism
Revisiting ‘resilience: Politics and State Practices in a New Conjuncture
Insurance and the "Irrationalization" of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk
In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of "climate crisis" (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as "Acts of God" that should be a collective responsibility, or as the result of decisions that can be attributed to indi…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Economics (5 works)