Against Security (eBook)

How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition

Harvey Molotch (Autor)

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2014 | Updated Edition
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5233-8 (ISBN)

Infos

How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these regimes of command-and-control not only annoy and intimidate but are counterproductive. Sociologist Harvey Molotch takes us through the sites, the gizmos, and the politics to urge greater trust in basic citizen capacities-along with smarter design of public spaces. In a new preface, he discusses abatement of panic and what the NSA leaks reveal about the real holes in our security.

Autor

Harvey Molotch is professor of sociology and metropolitan studies at New York University. His other books include the classic Urban Fortunes and the more recent Where Stuff Comes From.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2014
• Vorwort: Harvey Molotch
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones. 1 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aircraft • Airports • Airport security • air travel • americans • Anecdote • Anxiety • assassination • authoritarianism • body search • Bomb • Boredom • Canals • Chalmers Johnson • Class • Closed-circuit television • Command • command and control • Control • Convenience • Counter-Insurgency • Counter-Terrorism • Crime • Criminal Record • Crises • Criticism • culprit • Dana Priest • Danger • deference • Designer • diaper • Disability • disaster • Disaster Response • Dispatcher • double agent • ecological reform • emergency exit • emergency management • Employment • Entrapment • Environmentalist • fear • Fear of flying • Flight Attendant • Freedom Tower • Frisson • Funding • gender discrimination • Generosity • grocery store • Ground Zero • Gulf Coast • human goals • human territory • humiliation • Hurricane Katrina • Ideology • Imprisonment • Infrastructure • Institution • Insurgency • Intelligence agency • interdependence • Irrationality • Jews • Laptop • levees • Literature • Marshall Plan • mass transport • Militarism • militarization • mission creep • Moral Panic • natural disaster • natural disasters • New Orleans • New York subway system • One World Trade Center • Opportunism • pipe bomb • Police • Politician • Post 9/11 • Precedent • Public Policy • public restroom • public restrooms • Public Transport • Race • Rebuilding • remediation • Requirement • resentment • result • ridicule • risk assessment • Robbery • Safety • screener • secrecy • security • security agency • security guard • security policy • Security theater • Sediment • signage • Social Science • Social Science Research Council • Sociology • storm surge • Suggestion • Supervisor • Surveillance • Tax • Technology • terrorism • The Heritage Foundation • The New York Times • threat • toothbrush • Trade-off • Transit police • Transportation Security Administration • Uncertainty • United States Army Corps of Engineers • United States Department of Homeland Security • United States Intelligence Community • Universal Design • u.s. security • vulnerability • Vulnerability (computing) • Weapon • welfare • wetland • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5233-1 / 1400852331
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5233-8 / 9781400852338