Artículos relacionados a Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes,...

Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control - Tapa blanda

Maguire, Mark

 
9781479870066: Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1479870064 ISBN 13: 9781479870066
Editorial: NYU Press, 2019

Sinopsis

An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world

It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room. Yet, they both demonstrate dynamics of the interplay between security and space. This book focuses on the infrastructures of security, considering locations as varied as public entertainment venues to border walls to blast-proof bedrooms.

Around the world, experts, organizations, and governments are managing societies in the name of security, while scholars and commentators are writing about surveillance, state violence, and new technologies. Yet in spite of the growing emphasis on security, few truly consider the spatial dimensions of security, and particularly how the relationship between space and security varies across cultures.

This volume explores spaces of security not only by attending to how security is produced by and in spaces, but also by emphasizing the ways in which it is constructed in the contemporary landscape. The book explores diverse contexts ranging from biometrics in India to counterterrorism in East Africa to border security in Argentina. The ethnographic studies demonstrate the power of a spatial lens to highlight aspects of security that otherwise remain hidden, while also adding clarity to an elusive and dangerous way of managing the world.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca de los autores

Setha Low is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
She has been awarded a Getty Fellowship, a NEH fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, a Future of Places Fellowship and a Guggenheim for her ethnographic research on public space in Latin America and the United States. Her most recent books are Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place, Anthropology and the City, Spaces of Security (with M. Maguire), and Why Public Space Matters.



Mark Maguire is Dean of Maynooth University Faculty of Social Sciences. His research explores counterterrorism training and operations in several European jurisdictions. He is coeditor of The Anthropology of Security and Bodies as Evidence.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
NYU Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1479870064
ISBN 13 
9781479870066
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
272
Editor
Low Setha
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible