© Columbia University Press
Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic
July, 2009
Cloth, 224 pages, 3 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14868-9
$45.00
/ £31.00
"an important case study." — Survival
"Virus Alert offers a fine security analysis of the implications of HIV and AIDS." — The Midwest Book Review
"A provocative and controversial book on the subject of HIV/AIDS and national security . . . Highly Recommended." — Choice
"An elegant, intellectually stimulating contribution that provides a timely, empirically grounded, and indeed most welcome critical analysis of recent associations of HIV with security." — Jonas Hagmann, Millennium
"Theoretically sophisticated, cogent, and teeming with profound insight, Virus Alert is an outstanding contribution to the field of security and HIV/AIDS studies." — Alex de Waal, fellow, Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
"Stefan Elbe has written a careful and measured study of the relationship between security, governance, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It will be an important text for students of the epidemic and, more broadly, for those interested in theoretical developments in international relations and global governance." — Dennis Altman, professor of politics and director, Institute for Human Security, La Trobe University
"In Virus Alert, Stefan Elbe sheds brilliant light on the complex government of biopolitical life in the twenty-first century through the securitization of disease and the regulation of bodies. His case study of governmentality and HIV/AIDS is sure to become a canonical volume for students and scholars, not only of Michel Foucault and discourse theory but also of international relations and world politics." — Ronnie D. Lipschutz , professor of politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Stefan Elbe's dissection of how the HIV/AIDS pandemic has become a security issue is a compelling demonstration of the political force of theoretical critique informed by empirical rigor. Showing how securitization itself can be dangerous, Elbe has given us a book that will profoundly disturb established ways of engaging public health, international relations, and global security." — David Campbell, professor of cultural and political geography, Durham University