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Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life (Global Insecurities) - Softcover

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9781478006909: Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life (Global Insecurities)
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ISBN 10: 1478006900 ISBN 13: 9781478006909
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life.

Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martínez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin Zeiderman

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About the Author

D. Asher Ghertner is Associate Professor of Geography at Rutgers University.

Hudson McFann is a PhD candidate in geography at Rutgers University.

Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1478006900
ISBN 13 
9781478006909
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
312
Editor
Ghertner D. Asher, McFann Hudson, Goldstein Daniel M.
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