Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.
Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer...
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505 | 0 | |a 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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