Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger /
Harvey Molotch.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
- xv, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
9780691155814 (cloth : alk. paper)
2012012128
Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States. National security--United States. Transportation--Security measures--United States.