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The insecure American : how we got here and what we should do about it / edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
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- ISBN: 9780520259690 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520259696 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780520259713 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520259718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xiv, 371 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A nation of gated communities / Setha M. Low -- Warmaking as the American way of life / Catherine Lutz -- Republic of fear : the rise of punitive governance in America / Roger N. Lancaster -- Neoliberalism, or the bureaucratization of the world / David Graeber -- The age of Wal-Mart / Jane L. Collins -- Deindustrializing Chicago : a daughter's story / Christine J. Walley -- Racism, risk, and the new color of dirty jobs / Lee D. Baker -- Normal insecurities, healthy insecurities / Joseph Dumit -- Cultivating insecurity : how marketers are commercializing childhood / Juliet B. Schor -- Uneasy street / T. M. Luhrmann -- Body and soul : profits from poverty / Brett Williams -- Useless suffering : the war on homeless drug addicts / Philippe Bourgois -- Walling out immigrants / Peter Kwong -- Compounding insecurity : what the neocon core reveals about America today / Janine R. Wedel -- Deploying law as a weapon in America's war on terror / Susan F. Hirsch -- Death and dying in anxious America / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Get religion / Susan Harding. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | JK 275 .I57 2010 | 30540634 | General Collection | Available | - |
The Insecure American : How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It
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The Insecure American : How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It
Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Nuclear Rites and coeditor (with Besteman) of Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong , both from UC Press. Catherine Besteman is Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and the author of Transforming Capetown (UC Press).
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