Anticipating Survival: Latent Militarism and the Logic of Infrastructure in the Late-Twentieth Century United States
Anticipating Survival: Latent Militarism and the Logic of Infrastructure in the Late-Twentieth Century United States
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152135
- ISBN
- 9798383687949
- DDC
- 384
- 서명/저자
- Anticipating Survival: Latent Militarism and the Logic of Infrastructure in the Late-Twentieth Century United States
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 273 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Palm, Michael.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Infrastructures were not always "infrastructure." "Infrastructure's" first notable appearances in United States' popular discourse referred to NATO attempts to reconstruct Europe post-World War II. The term remained marginal in the US until the 1990s, when it was adopted into "critical infrastructure protection," a security paradigm for systems critical to US economic and security interests. Today, "infrastructure" is taken-for-granted as a way to describe the material and technological foundations for social life. This dissertation performs a discursive genealogy of "infrastructure," focusing on the term's historical emergence and maturation within US security discourse. Through this genealogy, I reveal that "infrastructure" became dominant in descriptions of systems because of its function rather than its meaning. What I call the logic of infrastructure names a way of using "infrastructure" to 1) describe the foundations of social life as technological, 2) define which technological systems count as foundational, and 3) differentiate among human lives designated more or less worth support through systems. The logic of infrastructure's use in hegemonic discourses reproduces racism and other forms of social dispossession. In these cases, the logic of infrastructure represents attempts to align how people live with racist designs of how they should live or whether they should die. Relying on archival research, visual analysis, and textual interpretation, I track the emergence of the logic of infrastructure in US domestic security from the Cold War era into the post-Cold War era, as terrorist activity replaced nuclear weaponry as the primary vision of threat. In both eras, what I call latent militarism erased imagined lines between civilian and military systems: civilian infrastructures became available for military use and vulnerable to military attack. Civilians, meanwhile, became recognizable as military targets and as potential military threats. By retrospectively reorganizing disparate systems and discourses, 1990s critical infrastructure protection used the logic of infrastructure to realize this erasure. Ultimately, Anticipating Survival offers an extension and a critique of contemporary critical infrastructure studies. I extend crucial insights into how infrastructural systems concretize patterns of racism and social dispossession through a critique of the scholarly tendency to take "infrastructure" for granted as a category.
- 일반주제명
- Communication
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 일반주제명
- Military studies
- 키워드
- Civil defense
- 키워드
- Discourse
- 키워드
- Infrastructure
- 키워드
- Racism
- 키워드
- World War II
- 기타저자
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Communication Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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■653 ▼aInfrastructure
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