Against Security : : How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition / / Harvey Molotch.
The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Updated edition with a New Preface |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 16 halftones. 1 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Colors of Security
- Chapter 2. Bare Life: Restroom Anxiety and the Urge for Control
- Chapter 3. Below the Subway: Taking Care Day In and Day Out
- Chapter 4. Wrong-Way Flights: Pushing Humans Away
- Chapter 5. Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero
- Chapter 6. Facing Katrina: Illusions of Levee and Compulsion to Build
- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Radical Ambiguity and the Default to Decency
- Notes
- Index