Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11

Contents

CONTENTS Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii ONE Invisible Dangers 1 TWO Disaster and Terrorism 19 THREE Making the Invisible Visible 37 Reverse Transparency and Privacy FOUR Hurricane Katrina, Unseen Dangers, and the All-Hazards Policy 55 FIVE The Imagery of the Landscape of Fear 68 SIX Unseen Dangers as Defilements 82 SEVEN Two Models of Nonrational Action 96 EIGHT Experts, Narratives, and the Public 119 Epilogue 140 Notes 155 Bibliography 167 Index 181 ...