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The insecure American : how we got here and what we should do about it  Cover Image Book Book

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.

Gusterson, Hugh. (Added Author). Besteman, Catherine Lowe. (Added Author).

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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.
Subject: United States > Politics and government > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Security (Psychology) > United States.
Nationalism > United States.
Nationalismus.
Innere Sicherheit.
USA.

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300 . ‡axiv, 371 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c23 cm.
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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