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Harvey Molotch - Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition - 9780691163581 - V9780691163581
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Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition

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Description for Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 halftones. 1 line illus. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHB; LNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
The 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. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
460g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691163581
SKU
V9780691163581
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About Harvey Molotch
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.

Reviews for Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Mr. Molotch ... present(s) a vivid picture of the ways in which poorly designed security measures can deform everyday life and defeat themselves."
Jordan Ellenberg, Wall Street Journal "America's obsession with safety makes us angry, alienated, and ultimately ... Read more

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