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Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.
Van Pelt Library HV6432 .M645 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Molotch, Harvey Luskin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy.
- United States.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Transportation--Security measures--United States.
- Transportation.
- Transportation--Security measures.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691155814
- 069115581X
- OCLC:
- 786002484
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