Articles
- “Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk” British Journal of Sociology, 2025.
- “The disaster contradiction of contemporary capitalism: Resilience, vital systems security, and ‘post-neoliberalism’” Geoforum 159, 2025.
- “Changing Urban Riskscapes: Climate Change, Finance, and the Built Environment.” (with Savannah Cox, Zac Taylor, and Harriet Bulkeley). Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4, 1, 2025.
- “Revisiting ‘Resilience’: Politics and State Practices in a New Conjuncture” (with Savannah Cox, Kevin Grove, and Nathaniel O’Grady). Geoforum 166, 2025.
- “Climate change and insurance“. (with Rebecca Elliott and Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen). Economy and Society, 50(2), 158–172, 2021.
- “Governing Urban Resilience: Insurance and the Problematization of Climate Change.” (with Savannah Cox) Economy and Society 50(2), 275–296, 2021.
- “Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency.” Theory, Culture, and Society 32, 3, 2015.
- “Neoliberalism and Natural Disaster: Insurance as Political Technology of Catastrophe” Journal of Cultural Economy 7, 30, 2014.
- “Neoliberalism as Big Leviathan, or…? A Response to Waquant and Hilgers” Social Anthropology 20, 2, 2012, pp. 186-195.
- “Topologies of Power: Foucault’s Study of Political Government beyond ‘Governmentality’” Theory, Culture, and Society 26, 6, 2009, pp. 1-31.
- “Enacting Catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalitzation.” Economy and Society 37(2), 2008, pp. 224-250.
- “Distributed Preparedness: Notes on the Genealogy of ‘Homeland Security’” (with Andrew Lakoff). Environment and Planning D: Space and Society 26, 2008, pp. 7-28
- “Vakuutuskelvottomasta riskistä” uusiin turvallisuuden sommitelmiin (Finnish translation of “From ‘Uninsurable Risk” to New Security Assemblages.”) Tiede & edistys 33 (1), 2008.
- “Notes on the Anthropology of Neoliberalism.” (with Lisa Hoffman and Monca DeHart). Anthropology News 47(6), 9-10. 2006.
- “Global Assemblages.” In Problematizing Global Knowledge. Special issue of Theory, Culture, and Society 23(2-3), 2006, pp. 399-401.
- “Beyond the Deficit Model: Welfare in Post-Soviet Georgia” (with Lucan Way). Post Soviet Affairs 20 (July/September), 2004.
- “Ethics and the Anthropology of Modern Reason” (with Andrew Lakoff). Anthropological Theory 4(4) 2004.
- “Biosecurity: Proposal for an Anthropology of the Contemporary” (with Andrew Lakoff and Paul Rabinow). Anthropology Today 20(5) October 2004.
- “Oikos/Anthropos: Technology, Rationality, Infrastructure” (with Aihwa Ong), Current Anthropology, Summer 2003.
Stephen J. Collier 