Molotch, Harvey Luskin.

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.

HV6432 / .M645 2012

363.325/170973