Security and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780415997683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 322 str.

Vida Bajc; Willem De Lint

Opis

Examines how security has (re-)emerged as the dominant ordering principle of social life. This title details institutional restructuring under this ordering principle and analyzes through specific case studies how it is shaping our public life locally and globally.

Spis treści

Introduction: Security Meta-Framing: A Cultural Logic of an Ordering Practice  Vida Bajc  Public Spaces and Collective Activities  1. "No Joking!"  Mark Salter  2. Security Meta-framing of Collective Activity in Public Spaces: The Pope John Paul II in the Holy City  Vida Bajc  Struggle and Resistance  3. When the Israeli State of Exception Meets the Exception: The Case of Tali Fahima  Liora Sion  4. Rethinking National Security Policies and Practices in Transnational Contexts: Border Resistance  Kathleen Staudt  Law, Citizenship, and the State  5. A Note on Security Modulation  Willem de Lint  6. Before the Law: Creeping Lawlessness in Canadian National Security  Reem Bahdi  7. The Pre-Emptive Mode of Regulation: Terrorism, Law, and Security  Gabe Mythen  Global Agendas, Local Transformations  8. Re/Building the E.U.: Governing through Counterterrorism  Sirpa Virta  9. Transnational Media Corporations (TNMCs) and National Culture as a Security Concern in China  Jiang Fei and Huang Kuo  10. Security Metamorphosis in Latin America  Nelson Arteaga Botello  Conclusion: Security and Everyday Life  Willem de Lint

O autorze

Vida Bajc is completing her doctorate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Willem de Lint is Professor of Criminal Justice at Flinders Law School, Flinders University of South Australia.