How to Secure a Country

ISBN 10: 3037785977 / ISBN 13: 9783037785973

Published by Lars Muller Publishers, CH, 2019

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When in 2014 Swiss people voted in favor of a federal popular initiative "against massive immigration," Salvatore Vitale, an immigrant living in Switzerland felt the need to research this phenomenon in order to comprehend where the motives for this constant need for security originate and how they became part of Swiss culture.In How to Secure a Country Vitale explores this country's national security measures by focusing on "matter-of-fact" types of instructions, protocols, bureaucracies, and clear-cut solutions which he visualizes in photographs, diagrams, and graphical illustrations. The result is a case study that can be used to explain the global context and the functioning of contemporary societies Essays by political scientists Jonas Hagmann (ETH Zurich) and Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland, Australia) provide an analysis of the structure of the Swiss security system and a view on the politics of photography. Lars Willumeit, curator and socialanthropologist, will discuss attitudes, behaviors, and codes in 21st Century statehood.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Secure a Country
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers, CH
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037785977
• ISBN 13: 9783037785973
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An artist's diagrammatic dissection of the national security culture that has swept the West

In this hybrid artist's book, Switzerland-based artist Salvatore Vitale (born 1986) explores Switzerland's national security measures by focusing instructions, protocols and bureaucracies pertaining to security, which he visualizes in photographs, diagrams and graphic illustrations.

Switzerland, well known as one of the safest countries on earth and a prime example of efficiency and efficacy, has developed a culture based on protection, supported by the presence and production of national security. When in 2014 the Swiss voted in favor of an initiative "against massive immigration," Vitale, an immigrant living in Switzerland, decided to research this phenomenon in order to comprehend the origin for this constant need for security and how it became part of Swiss culture. The result is a case study that can be used to explain the global context for notions of security and the functioning of contemporary societies.