Safety Orange

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Anna Watkins.

Series:

Forerunners: Ideas First

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Minnesota Press 2021

[S.l.] : 2021. UNIV OF MINNESOTA PRESS,

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States Safety Orange first emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations in the United States. Today it is most visible in the contexts of terror, pandemic, and environmental alarm systems; traffic control; work safety; and mass incarceration. In recent decades, the color has become ubiquitous in American public life—a marker of the extreme poles of state oversight and abandonment, of capitalist excess and dereliction. Its unprecedented saturation encodes the tracking of those bodies, neighborhoods, and infrastructures judged as worthy of care—and those deemed dangerous and expendable. Here, Anna Watkins Fisher uses Safety Orange as an interpretive key for theorizing the uneven distribution of safety and care in twenty-first-century U.S. public life and for pondering what the color tells us about neoliberalism’s intensifying impact often hiding in plain sight in ordinary and commonplace phenomena. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title Page

Series List

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction: Ordinary Life on High Alert

1. Orange You Glad You Live in America: The United States of Perpetual Risk

2. Orange beyond Orange: Normalizing Catastrophe in Public Risk Communication

3. An Infrastructural Band-Aid: Outsourcing State Accountability

4. Orange Is the New Profiling Technology

5. Orange Applied: Artistic Appropriations

Conclusion: Seeing Red

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Fisher, Anna Watkins Safety Orange

ISBN:

9781452967240

1452967245

9781452967233

1452967237

OCLC:

1287135669