RT Article
T1 Securing the Homeland: Torture, Preparedness, and the Right to Let Die
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 1
SP 95
OP 105
A1 Monahan, Torin
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157627
AB Part of a special issue on immigration rights and national insecurity. The writer analyzes the discourses surrounding torture, disaster preparedness, and the right to let die in the U.S. New layers of human insecurity have been introduced through torture practices, restrictions of due process, and government spying, and resources that are badly needed for public programs are seriously depleted by the militarization of government agencies, costly wars, and privatized security forces. At the same time, moral panics are generated by and answered with disaster preparedness plans, which construct an ideal type of a responsible citizen-soldier in the ongoing battle of securing the homeland.
K1 Federal Government
K1 Natural Disasters
K1 Hazard mitigation
K1 Torture
K1 Conflict Management
K1 Crisis Management
K1 National Security
K1 Counterterrorism -- United States
K1 Political Participation
K1 EMERGENCY management