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Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger, Harvey Molotch ; with a new preface by the author

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Molotch, Harvey Luskin

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Molotch, Harvey Luskin

Summary: Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer? Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive. Taking readers through varied ambiguously dangerous sites, the prominent urbanist and leading sociologist of the everyday, Harvey Molotch, argues that we can use our existing social relationships to make life safer and more humane. He begins by addressing the misguided strategy of eliminating public restrooms, which deprives us all of a basic resource and denies human dignity to those with no place else to go. Subway security instills fear through programs like "See Something, Say Something" and intrusive searches that have yielded nothing of value. At the airport, the security gate causes crowding and confusion, exhausting the valuable focus of TSA staff. Finally, Molotch shows how defensive sentiments have translated into the vacuous Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site and massive error in New Orleans, both before and after Hurricane Katrina. Throughout, Molotch offers thoughtful ways of maintaining security that are not only strategic but improve the quality of life for everyone. Against Security argues that with changed policies and attitudes, redesigned equipment, and an increased reliance on our human capacity to help one another, we can be safer and maintain the pleasure and dignity of our daily lives.--

Language: eng

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Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014

Edition: Second printing, and first paperback printing, with a new preface by the author

Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 260 pages)

Contents

Below the Subway: Taking Care Day In and Day Out
with Noah McClain
Chapter 4.
Wrong-Way Flights: Pushing Humans Away
Chapter 5.
Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero
Chapter 6.
Facing Katrina: Illusions of Levee and Compulsion to Build
Chapter 7.
Conclusion: Radical Ambiguity and the Default to Decency
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.
Introduction: Colors of Security
Chapter 2.
Bare Life: Restroom Anxiety and the Urge for Control
Chapter 3.

Isbn: 9781400852338

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Label: Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger

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Title remainder: how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger

Statement of responsibility: Harvey Molotch ; with a new preface by the author

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Molotch, Harvey Luskin

Author

Molotch, Harvey Luskin

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Language: eng

Summary: Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer? Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive. Taking readers through varied ambiguously dangerous sites, the prominent urbanist and leading sociologist of the everyday, Harvey Molotch, argues that we can use our existing social relationships to make life safer and more humane. He begins by addressing the misguided strategy of eliminating public restrooms, which deprives us all of a basic resource and denies human dignity to those with no place else to go. Subway security instills fear through programs like "See Something, Say Something" and intrusive searches that have yielded nothing of value. At the airport, the security gate causes crowding and confusion, exhausting the valuable focus of TSA staff. Finally, Molotch shows how defensive sentiments have translated into the vacuous Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site and massive error in New Orleans, both before and after Hurricane Katrina. Throughout, Molotch offers thoughtful ways of maintaining security that are not only strategic but improve the quality of life for everyone. Against Security argues that with changed policies and attitudes, redesigned equipment, and an increased reliance on our human capacity to help one another, we can be safer and maintain the pleasure and dignity of our daily lives.--

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Label: Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger, Harvey Molotch ; with a new preface by the author

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Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014

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Contents

Below the Subway: Taking Care Day In and Day Out
with Noah McClain
Chapter 4.
Wrong-Way Flights: Pushing Humans Away
Chapter 5.
Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero
Chapter 6.
Facing Katrina: Illusions of Levee and Compulsion to Build
Chapter 7.
Conclusion: Radical Ambiguity and the Default to Decency
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.
Introduction: Colors of Security
Chapter 2.
Bare Life: Restroom Anxiety and the Urge for Control
Chapter 3.

Control code: ocn900827256

Edition: Second printing, and first paperback printing, with a new preface by the author

Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 260 pages)

Form of item: online

Isbn: 9781400852338

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