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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Molotch, Harvey Luskin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edition:Second printing, and first paperback printing, with a new preface by the author.
Subjects:
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 / Security (National & International).
National security.
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy.
Transportation > Security measures.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 / 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

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