Indefensible space the architecture of the national insecurity state

Fear factor -- Cities and the war on terror -- Empire of the insensate -- Urban operations and network centric warfare -- Planet America : empire's new land grab -- Waiting in African cities -- Border tours : strategies of surveillance, tactics of encroachment -- Re-stating the obvious -- Threa...

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1. Verfasser: Sorkin, Michael (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Routledge c2008
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Zusammenfassung:Fear factor -- Cities and the war on terror -- Empire of the insensate -- Urban operations and network centric warfare -- Planet America : empire's new land grab -- Waiting in African cities -- Border tours : strategies of surveillance, tactics of encroachment -- Re-stating the obvious -- Threat from within : protecting the indefensible from the indeterminate -- Blank slates and disaster zones : the state, September 11, and the displacement of Chinatown -- Back to zero : mourning in America -- New emotions of home : fear, insecurity, and paranoia -- Stage authenticity today -- Architecture emblematic : hardened sites and softened symbols -- Me and my monkey : what's hiding in the security state -- Thanatotactics -- Short history of the car bomb
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references. - Formerly CIP
Beschreibung:XVII, 398 S
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ISBN:9780415953689
978-0-415-95368-9
9780415953672
978-0-415-95367-2
0415953685
0-415-95368-5