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

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

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 bu...

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1. Verfasser: Molotch, Harvey Luskin (VerfasserIn, BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ u.a. Princeton Univ. Press 2012
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Terrorism > Prevention > National security > Transportation > Security measures > USA > Regierung > Sicherheitspolitik > Verkehrsknotenpunkt
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 260 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
23 cm
ISBN:9780691155814
978-0-691-15581-4
069115581X
0-691-15581-X