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  • The Anthropology of Security

    Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control

    Edited by Mark Maguire, Catarina Frois, Nils Zurawski ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-citizens in profound ways.The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification systems, CCTV and quasi-military techniques to police migrants and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This is the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trapped

    Life under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It

    by Mark Maguire, Setha Low ...
    Exploring the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states.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 ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • The War Of Marriage

    For Men Who Fight For Peace

    by Mark Maguire ...
    I’m often the last line of defence for couples that turn up to my counselling office. The war within their relationship can’t continue. When I think I’ve heard everything from clients of all backgrounds, ages, and cultures a new story appears with challenging twists and turns. Men long for peace at home. What they don’t realise is peace has to be fought for. Peace is not a given. It can’t be dealt ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Spaces of Security

    Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control

    Edited by Setha Low, Mark Maguire ...
    An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the worldIt is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room. Yet, they both demonstrate dynamics of the interplay between security and space. This book focuses on the infrastructures of security, considering locations as varied as public entertainment venues to ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Getting Through Security

    Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern

    by Mark Maguire, David A. Westbrook ...
    Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the “secret colleges” of counterterrorism, a world haunted by the knowledge that intelligence will fail, and Leviathan will not arrive quickly enough to save everyone. Based on extensive interviews with both special forces and other security operators who seek to protect the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Integration in Ireland

    The everyday lives of African migrants

    by Mark Maguire, Fiona Murphy ...
    Series series New Ethnographies
    The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants. This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers. Against the widespread assumptions that integration has been handled well in Ireland and that racism is not a major problem, this book ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bodies as Evidence

    Security, Knowledge, and Power

    Edited by Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao, Nils Zurawski ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as Evidence reveal how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    by Amitai Etzioni ...
    For thoughtful readers--and not particularly lawyers or scholars--engaged in the issues of the day who want something other than "easy" answers from right or left. Renowned sociologist Etzioni addresses key issues of terrorism, drone wars, TSA scanners, DNA banks, surveillance, privacy, norms of social disapproval and forgiveness, human rights, and respecting cultures; 15 trenchant essays in all. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invisible Chains

    Canada's Underground World Of Human Trafficking

    by Benjamin Perrin ...
    Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.The global problem of human ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Why Intelligence Fails

    Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War

    by Robert Jervis ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures.In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

    by Leslie Kern ...
    From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Another Bloody Century

    Future Warfare

    by Colin S. Gray ...
    How the wars of the near future will be fought and who will win themMany nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will advance their cause. Warfare has changed greatly since the Second World War; it continued to change during the late 20th century and this process is still accelerating. Political, technological, social and religious forces are shaping the future of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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