Today I welcome Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff, co-authors of The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security .
Stephen Collier is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics (2011), and, with Andrew Lakoff, The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security (2021). 
Andrew Lakoff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge, 2006), Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency (California, 2017), and, with Stephen Collier, The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security (Princeton, 2021).