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Saving the security state : exceptional citizens in twenty-first-century America / Inderpal Grewal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grewal, Inderpal, author.
- Series:
- Next wave.
- Next wave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neoliberalism--Social aspects--United States.
- Neoliberalism.
- National security--Social aspects--United States.
- National security.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the “exceptional citizens”—primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the country from racialized others. Under advanced neoliberalism, Grewal shows, others in the United States strive to become exceptional by participating in humanitarian projects that compensate for the security state's inability to provide for the welfare of its citizens. In her analyses of microfinance programs in the global South, security moms, the murders at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim charities, Grewal exposes the fissures and contradictions at the heart of the US neoliberal empire and the centrality of race, gender, and religion to the securitized state.
- Contents:
- Introduction. exceptional citizens? saving and surveilling in advanced neoliberal times
- Katrina, American exceptionalism, and the security state
- American humanitarian citizenship: the "soft" power of empire
- Muslims, missionaries, and humanitarians
- "Security moms" and "security feminists" : securitizing family and state
- Digital natives : threats, technologies, markets
- Coda. the "shooter".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822372554
- 082237255X
- OCLC:
- 1004890535
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