Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control

An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between house and safety in international locations around the globe
It’s tough to think about two contexts as completely different as a soccer stadium and a panic room. But, they each display dynamics of the interaction between safety and house. This ebook focuses on the infrastructures of safety, contemplating areas as diversified as public leisure venues to frame partitions to blast-proof bedrooms.
World wide, consultants, organizations, and governments are managing societies within the title of safety, whereas students and commentators are writing about surveillance, state violence, and new applied sciences. But regardless of the rising emphasis on safety, few actually contemplate the spatial dimensions of safety, and notably how the connection between house and safety varies throughout cultures.
This quantity explores areas of safety not solely by attending to how safety is produced by and in areas, but in addition by emphasizing the methods by which it’s constructed within the up to date panorama. The ebook explores numerous contexts starting from biometrics in India to counterterrorism in East Africa to frame safety in Argentina. The ethnographic research display the facility of a spatial lens to focus on features of safety that in any other case stay hidden, whereas additionally including readability to an elusive and harmful approach of managing the world.

Writer ‏ : ‎ NYU Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 22, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1479870064
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479870066
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.68 x 9 inches