RT Book
T1 Trapped: life under security capitalism and how to escape it
A1 Maguire, Mark 1975-
A2 Low, Setha M. 1948-
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1877562467
AB "Calls to defund the police or to stop brutal police violence, argue Mark Maguire and Setha Low, will never succeed as long as there are those who enjoy and take comfort in security capitalism. Security capitalism can be recognized by the marks it leaves on society, remaking public space in its own image--privatized, fortified, unequal, striated, and access-controlled. With a global and comparative lens that takes readers from Nairobi to New York City, Maguire and Low offer intimate portraits of the people behind security capitalism--the police, policy makers, and private contractors who agree that a price must be paid in blood to maintain public safety--and critique phenomena like the transfer of public funds to arms dealers via the militarization of police, securitized housing developments, and ineffectual counterterrorism efforts. But more than just an exposé of the nefarious corporations, corrupt agencies, and incompetent governments, this book uniquely shines the spotlight on the ordinary citizens whose desires for safety drive these phenomena. Angela Davis has written of the challenge of persuading people that "safety, safeguarded by violence, is not really safety." Maguire and Low aid us in thinking through the challenge, providing a common language to discuss security capitalism and offering ways to escape its clutches"--
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN HV8049
SN 9781503632967
K1 Internal Security : Social aspects
K1 Security sector : Social aspects
K1 Private security services : Social aspects
K1 Police : Social aspects