Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Edited by Andrew Lakoff

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May, 2010
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14696-8
$45.00 / £31.00

Chapters include: Andrew Lakoff, “Introduction;” Sheila Jasanoff, “Beyond Calculation: A Democratic Response to Risk;” Patrick S. Roberts, “Private Choices, Public Harms: The Evolution of National Disaster Organizations in the United States;” P.W. Singer, “Strange Brew: Private Military Contractors and Humanitarians;” Heinz Klug, “Risking Health: HIV/AIDS and the Problem of Access to Essential Medicines;” Donald MacKenzie, “Constructing Carbon Markets: Learning from Experiments in the Technopolitics of Emissions Trading Schemes”

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Security Studies

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

About the Author

Andrew Lakoff is associate professor of anthropology, sociology and communication at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry, and coeditor, with Stephen J. Collier, of Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. His current research concerns the intersection between global health and national security in the development of approaches to new biological and environmental threats.

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