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Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.

By: Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.Description: xv, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691155814 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.325/170973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6432 .M645 2012
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV6432 .M645 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001265676

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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