An edition of Against security
(2012)
Against security
how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger
by Harvey Molotch
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Offers the authors reflections on the quest for security in the United States.
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Against security: how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger
2012, Princeton University Press
in English
069115581X 9780691155814
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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