Against security
Subtitle: how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger
By: Harvey Molotch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780691155814
Subjects: Transportation; National security; Government policy; Terrorism; Security measures; Prevention
Description: Offers the authors reflections on the quest for security in the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : colors of security; title: Bare life : restroom anxiety and the urge for control; title: Below the subway : taking care day in and day out; title: Wrong-way flights : pushing humans away; title: Forting up the skyline : rebuilding at ground zero; title: Facing Katrina : illusions of levee and compulsion to build; title: Conclusion : radical ambiguity and the default to decency.