Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger /
Molotch, Harvey Luskin,
Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch. - xxiii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps 23cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : colors of security -- Bare life : restroom anxiety and the urge for control -- Below the subway : taking care day in and day out -- Wrong-way flights : pushing humans away -- Forting up the skyline : rebuilding at ground zero -- Facing Katrina : illusions of levee and compulsion to build -- Conclusion : radical ambiguity and the default to decency.
Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer? Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive. Taking readers through varied ambiguously dangerous sites, the prominent urbanist and leading sociologist of.
English.
140084486X 9781400844869 1400852331 9781400852338 1283571455 9781283571456 9786613883902 6613883905
9786613883902 7605318
388390 MIL 22573/cttjzj0p JSTOR
016117541 Uk
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States.
National security--United States.
Transportation--Security measures--United States.
Terrorisme--Pr�evention--Politique gouvernementale--�Etats-Unis.
Transport--S�ecurit�e--Mesures--�Etats-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Security (National & International)
National security.
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy.
Transportation--Security measures.
Terrorismbek�ampning--F�orenta staterna.
S�akerhetspolitik--F�orenta staterna.
Transporter--F�orenta staterna.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV6432 / .M73
363.325/170973
Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch. - xxiii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps 23cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : colors of security -- Bare life : restroom anxiety and the urge for control -- Below the subway : taking care day in and day out -- Wrong-way flights : pushing humans away -- Forting up the skyline : rebuilding at ground zero -- Facing Katrina : illusions of levee and compulsion to build -- Conclusion : radical ambiguity and the default to decency.
Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer? Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive. Taking readers through varied ambiguously dangerous sites, the prominent urbanist and leading sociologist of.
English.
140084486X 9781400844869 1400852331 9781400852338 1283571455 9781283571456 9786613883902 6613883905
9786613883902 7605318
388390 MIL 22573/cttjzj0p JSTOR
016117541 Uk
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States.
National security--United States.
Transportation--Security measures--United States.
Terrorisme--Pr�evention--Politique gouvernementale--�Etats-Unis.
Transport--S�ecurit�e--Mesures--�Etats-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Security (National & International)
National security.
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy.
Transportation--Security measures.
Terrorismbek�ampning--F�orenta staterna.
S�akerhetspolitik--F�orenta staterna.
Transporter--F�orenta staterna.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV6432 / .M73
363.325/170973