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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : exploring spaces of security / Mark Maguire and Setha Low -- Security urbanism and the counterterror state in Kenya / Zolt n Glck -- Comparative surveillance regimes : a preliminary essay / Katherine Verdery -- Borderization and public security in Argentina / Alejandro Grimson and Br¡gida Renoldi -- From panopticon to pansonic : the architecture of fear in mega-events / Carmen Rial -- Securing security : recursive security assemblages in South Africa / Thomas G. Kirsch -- Domesticating security : gated communities and cooperative apartment buildings in New York City and Long Island, New York / Setha Low -- Domesticating spaces of security in Israel / Nurit Bird-David and Matan Shapiro -- The political economy and political aesthetics of military maps / Catherine Lutz -- Enigmatic presence : satellites and the vertical spatialities of security / Stephen Graham -- Re-spatializing social security in India / Ursula Rao |
| Summary |
Today, security is one of the most prominent topics in anthropology. Spatial metaphors and images saturate research on security, yet anthropology has not developed a coherent approach to this important dimension of security. This volume draws together ethnographic research on spaces of security from different regions and scales, range from blast-proof bedrooms in Israel to biometric identification in India, and from border control in Argentina to counterterrorism in East Africa. Each contribution focuses on specific spatio-temporal configurations, infrastructural interventions and shifts in discourse and practice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2019) |
| Subject |
Internal security -- Social aspects -- Case studies
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Security sector -- Social aspects -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Low, Setha M., editor
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Maguire, Mark, editor
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| ISBN |
9781479805778 |
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1479805777 |
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