Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Blandy

Domestic fortress

Fear and the new home front

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate contemporary society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781784995317
• ISBN-10: 1784995312
• Artikelnr.: 45392070

Autorenporträt

Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield Sarah Blandy is Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Domestic economy 2. A shell for the body and mind 3.
Invasions of privacy 4. Fear, crime and the home 5. Technologies of the
defended home 6. Withdraw, defend or destroy 7. The fortress archipelago 8.
Complexes of the domestic fortress Index