Mark Maguire, David A. Westbrook

Broschiertes Buch

Getting Through Security

Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern

Beschreibung

Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the "secret colleges" of counterterrorism, and reflect on what these practices mean for the state and its violence â offering suggestions for the perennial challenge to secure a humane politics.

Autor

Mark Maguire is Dean of Maynooth University Faculty of Social Sciences, and former Head of the Department of Anthropology. He has edited a number of recent collections on the anthropology of security, most recently Spaces of Security (NYU Press, 2019) with Setha M. Low. David A. Westbrook is Louis A. Del Cotto Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York. His books include Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters and Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence and the Responsible Projection of US Force.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780367613020
• ISBN-10: 0367613026
• Artikelnr.: 59982436