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Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things - The Politics of Infrastructure Security (Paperback)
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Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things - The Politics of Infrastructure Security (Paperback)
Series: Infrastructures
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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.
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