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Forthcoming: “Climate Emergency and the Government of Flows in California,” Special Issue of Economy and Society on “Governing Climate Emergencies: Beyond Anticipation and Preparedness”
2023 “A Visual Genealogy of Urban Resilience: From Air War Planning to Climate Adaptation” (with Stephen J. Collier). Perspecta 55
2021 “Preparedness Indicators: Making Health Security Global.” Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate 15:3: 25 – 43
2021 “Acting Counter to Our Time.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2020 “Making Things Fungible.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10:3: 1078 – 1081
2017 “A Fragile Assemblage: Mutant Bird Flu and the Ends of Preparedness,” Social Studies of Science 47:3: 376–397
2016 “The Indicator Species: Tracking Ecosystem Collapse in Arid California,” Public Culture 28:2, 237–259
2015 “Real Time Biopolitics: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Public Health,” Economy and Society 44:1: 40–59
2015 “Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency,” (with Stephen J. Collier), Theory, Culture and Society 32: 2: 19–51
2010 “Two Regimes of Global Health,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 1. no. 1 (Fall): 59-79
2010 “Of Risk and Pork: Urban Security and the Politics of Objectivity” (with Eric Klinenberg) Theory and Society 39: 503–525
2008 “The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared,” Cultural Anthropology 23:3:399–428
- German translation: “Nationale Sicherheit und der sich wandelnde Gegenstand der offentlichen Gusundheit,” in Risiko Gesundheit, edited by Bettina Paul and Henning Schmidt-Semisch. VS-Verlag (2010), 263–286
2008 “Distributed Preparedness: The Spatial Logic of Domestic Security in the United States” (with Stephen J. Collier), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 26, no. 1: 7–28
- Reprinted in: War, Citizenship, and Territory, edited by Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert. New York: Routledge (2008), 119–136
2007 “The Right Patients for the Drug: Managing the Placebo Effect in Antidepressant Trials,” BioSocieties 2: 1, 57–71
2007 “Preparing for the Next Emergency,” Public Culture 19: 2, 247–271
- French translation (abridged): “Pour qu’un désastre ne tourne pas à la catastrophe: jusqu’où sommes-nous prêts?” Esprit, March-April 2008, 104–111
2005 “The Simulation of Madness: Buenos Aires, 1903,” Critical Inquiry 31:4, 848–873
2005 “Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA,” Theory and Society 34:1, 63–92
- Reprinted in: Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, 2nd edition, edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell (2007), 277–300
- Reprinted in: Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets, edited by Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Durham: Duke University Press (2012), 251–278
- Spanish translation: “Liquidez Diagnóstica: Enfermedad mental y comercio global de ADN,” Apuntes de investigación del CECYP 11 (2006)
2004 “The Anxieties of Globalization: Antidepressant Sales and Economic Crisis in Argentina,” Social Studies of Science 34:2 (2004), 247–269
- Spanish translation: “Las ansiedades de la globalización: Venta de antidepresivos y crisis económica en la Argentina,” Cuadernos de Antropologia Social 18 (2003), 35–66
2004 “Biosecurity: Proposal for an Anthropology of the Contemporary” (with Stephen J. Collier and Paul Rabinow), Anthropology Today 20: 5 (2004), 3–7
- French translation: “La Biosécurité: Vers une Anthropologie du Contemporain,” Raisons Politiques 32 (Novembre 2008), 59–75
2004 “Ethics and the Anthropology of Modern Reason” (with Stephen J. Collier), Anthropological Theory 4:4 (2004), 419–434
2003 “The Lacan Ward: Pharmacology and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires,” Social Analysis 47:2, 82–101
- Reprinted in: Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture, edited by Michael Lambek and Paul Antze. New York: Berghahn (2003), 82–101
2000 Adaptive Will: The Evolution of Attention Deficit Disorder,” in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 36:2, 149–169
1996 “Freezing Time: Margaret Mead’s Diagnostic Photography,” in Visual Anthropology Review 12:1, 1–18

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