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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.Description: xv, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 069115581X : HRD
  • 9780691155814 (cloth : alk. paper);
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.325/170973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6432 .M645 2012
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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