Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / Harvey Molotch.

Molotch, Harvey Luskin.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
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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.
Offers the authors reflections on the quest for security in the United States.

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