Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.

By:

Molotch, Harvey Luskin [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: �2012Description: xxiii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps 23cmContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

140084486X
9781400844869
1400852331
9781400852338
1283571455
9781283571456
9786613883902
6613883905

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Against security.DDC classification:

363.325/170973 23

LOC classification:

HV6432 .M73

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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