Against Security : How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition /

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
Main Author: Molotch, Harvey Luskin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transporter > Förenta staterna.
Säkerhetspolitik > Förenta staterna.
Terrorismbekämpning > Förenta staterna.
Transportation > Security measures.
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy.
National security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Terrorism.
Transport > Securite > Mesures > États-Unis.
Terrorisme > Prevention > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Transportation > Security measures > United States.
National security > United States.
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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