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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265236003321

Autore

Mirgani Suzi

Titolo

Target markets : international terrorism meets global capitalism in the mall / / Suzi Mirgani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2016

Bielefeld : , : transcript-Verlag, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-8394-3352-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Culture & theory

Classificazione

HD 402

Disciplina

363.325

Soggetti

Shopping malls - Security measures

Target marketing

Terrorism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-197).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall -- 2. Developing the Shopping Mall -- 3. Designing the Shopping Mall -- 4. Securing the Shopping Mall -- 5. Spectacles of the Shopping Mall -- 6. Conclusion: Specters of the Shopping Mall -- Endnotes -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture - the most mainstream and the most extreme - meet on common ground.