An edition of Against security (2012)

Against security

how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger

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An edition of Against security (2012)

Against security

how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Princeton

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.325/170973
Library of Congress
HV6432 .M645 2012, HV6432.M645 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25282999M
ISBN 13
9780691155814
LCCN
2012012128
OCLC/WorldCat
786002484

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16599625W

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