Molotch, Harvey Luskin, <br/><br/>
Against security :  how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / 
Harvey Molotch. 
 - xxiii, 260 pages :  illustrations, maps  23cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>140084486X 9781400844869 1400852331 9781400852338 1283571455 9781283571456 9786613883902 6613883905 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9786613883902 7605318 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>388390  MIL 22573/cttjzj0p  JSTOR 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016117541  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States.<br/>National security--United States.<br/>Transportation--Security measures--United States.<br/>Terrorisme--Pr�evention--Politique gouvernementale--�Etats-Unis.<br/>Transport--S�ecurit�e--Mesures--�Etats-Unis.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Terrorism.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Security (National & International)<br/>National security.<br/>Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy.<br/>Transportation--Security measures.<br/>Terrorismbek�ampning--F�orenta staterna.<br/>S�akerhetspolitik--F�orenta staterna.<br/>Transporter--F�orenta staterna.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV6432  / .M73 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.325/170973