Accumulating Insecurity

Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life
Herausgeber: Feldman, Shelley; Menon, Gayatri a; Geisler, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global military engagements and the militarization of civilian life, and the dramatic increase in day-to-day insecurity associated with contemporary crises in health care, housing, incarceration, personal debt, and unemployment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9780820338736
• ISBN-10: 0820338737
• Artikelnr.: 33149840

Autorenporträt

Shelley Feldman (Editor) SHELLEY FELDMAN is a retired professor of sociology at Cornell University. She is author or editor of three previous books including Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work. Charles Geisler (Editor) CHARLES GEISLER is a professor of sociology at Cornell University. He is the author or editor of eight previous books including Property and Values: Alternatives to Public and Private Ownership. Gayatri A. Menon (Editor) >