Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the value of resilience; The value(s) of security; Genealogy and the critique of values; Resilience and the biopolitics of security; Chapter outline; 1 State of emergency; War becomes vital: securing the essentials of life in the First World War; Harnessing uncertainty: esprit de corps and moral forces; A British machinery of emergency governance; Essentials of life in the Emergency Powers Act (1920); Panic and the origins of British Civil Defence
Operational research and the 'scientification' of warGeneralizing emergency: the Emergencies Committee; Conclusion; 2 Protect and survive; Freedom from fear: social insurance and the British welfare state; Ensuring survival: post-war civil defence; Imagining Armageddon: the Strath report; Preparing for survival; State of emergency: the Civil Contingencies Unit; Conclusion; 3 The nature of resilience; The nature of nature; Transforming nature; The nature of neoliberalism; The birth of resilient populations; Conclusion; 4 Securing emergence; The contemporary threat environment
Transformation: the Revolution in Military AffairsOptimizing network-centric warriors; Emergent security; Harnessing emergence: resilience and UK Civil Contingencies planning; Conclusion; 5 The technological subject of resilience; Resilient by design; The subject of communications technology; Exercising resilience; Conclusion; Conclusion: evaluating resilience; Index