Domestic fortress : Fear and the new home front /

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Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, Domestic Fortress considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Atkinson, Rowland (Author), Blandy, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Security (Psychology)
Home.
Dwellings.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
dwellings.
asylums (welfare buildings)
Insecurite.
Habitations.
Foyer.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, Domestic Fortress considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety.
Item Description:Introduction 1. Domestic economy 2. A shell for the body and mind 3. Invasions of privacy 4. Fear, crime and the home 5. Technologies of the defended home 6. Withdraw, defend or destroy 7. The fortress archipelago 8. Complexes of the domestic fortress Index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:9781526108166

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