Against security [electronic resource] : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.
2012
HV6432 .M656 2012eb
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Against security [electronic resource] : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.
Author
Molotch, Harvey Luskin.
ISBN
9781400844869 (electronic book)
069115581X
9780691155814
069115581X
9780691155814
Publication Details
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 260 p.) : ill., maps.
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HV6432 .M656 2012eb
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.