Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life

Bys: Charles Geisler, Gayatri A. Menon, Shelley Feldman

Book Overview

Accumulating Insecurity 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.

Contributors to the volume explore how violence is used to maintain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820338737
• ISBN13: 9780820338736
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"