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

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, [2014]
Edición:Second printing, and first paperback printing, with a new preface by the author.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 / with Noah McClain
  • 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