The insecure American how we got here and what we should do about it
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Cat...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798150806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. A Nation of Gated Communities
- 2. Warmaking as the American Way of Life
- 3. Republic of Fear The Rise of Punitive Governance in America
- 4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World
- 5. The Age of Wal-Mart
- 6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's Story
- 7. Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs
- 8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities
- 9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood
- 10. Uneasy Street
- 11. Body and Soul Profits from Poverty
- 12. Useless Suffering The War on Homeless Drug Addicts
- 13. Walling Out Immigrants
- 14. Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today
- 15. Deploying Law as a Weapon in America's War on Terror
- 16. Death and Dying in Anxious America
- 17. Get Religion
- contributors
- Index
