Preparing for the Next Emergency

Preparedness becomes an especially salient approach to perceived threats when they reach the limits of a rationality of insurance. These are threats that are not manageable through techniques of probabilistic calculation: preparedness typically approaches events whose probability is not calculable b...

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Published inPublic culture Vol. 19; no. 2; p. 247
Main Author Lakoff, Andrew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Durham Duke University Press, NC & IL 01.04.2007
Subjects
Disasters
Emergency preparedness
Insurance
National security
Probability
Public policy
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Summary:Preparedness becomes an especially salient approach to perceived threats when they reach the limits of a rationality of insurance. These are threats that are not manageable through techniques of probabilistic calculation: preparedness typically approaches events whose probability is not calculable but whose consequences could be catastrophic. The essay then traces the history of preparedness as a rationality of domestic security.
ISSN:0899-2363
1527-8018
DOI:10.1215/08992363-2006-035