Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Molotch, Harvey Luskin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy > United States.
National security > United States.
Transportation > Security measures > United States.
Terrorisme > Prévention > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Transport > Sécurité > Mesures > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
National security
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy
Transportation > Security measures
Terrorismbekämpning > Förenta staterna.
Säkerhetspolitik > Förenta staterna.
Transporter > Förenta staterna.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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