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Title:
Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger
Author:
Molotch, Harvey Luskin, author.
ISBN:
9781400844869
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations, maps
Abstract:
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? Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive. Taking readers through varied ambiguously dangerous sites, the prominent urbanist and leading sociologist of.
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