05160nam 2201057Ia 450 991078999950332120220329023227.00-520-94508-510.1525/9780520945081(CKB)2670000000088570(EBL)685409(OCoLC)727649107(SSID)ssj0000591199(PQKBManifestationID)11336339(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591199(PQKBWorkID)10672859(PQKB)11427879(DE-B1597)519372(OCoLC)1058090081(DE-B1597)9780520945081(Au-PeEL)EBL685409(CaPaEBR)ebr10675756(MiAaPQ)EBC685409(EXLCZ)99267000000008857020090410d2010 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe insecure American[electronic resource] how we got here and what we should do about it /edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara EhrenreichBerkeley University of California Pressc20101 online resource (387 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25971-8 0-520-25969-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Foreword --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. A Nation of Gated Communities --2. Warmaking as the American Way of Life --3. Republic of Fear The Rise of Punitive Governance in America --4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World --5. The Age of Wal-Mart --6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's Story --7. Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs --8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities --9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood --10. Uneasy Street --11. Body and Soul Profits from Poverty --12. Useless Suffering The War on Homeless Drug Addicts --13. Walling Out Immigrants --14. Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today --15. Deploying Law as a Weapon in America's War on Terror --16. Death and Dying in Anxious America --17. Get Religion --contributors --IndexAmericans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an anxious country and to furnish valuable insights into the nation's possible future. With an incisive foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, the contributors draw on their deep knowledge of different facets of American life to map the impact of the new economy, the "war on terror," the "war on drugs," racial resentments, a fraying safety net, undocumented immigration, a health care system in crisis, and much more. In laying out a range of views on the forces that unsettle us, The Insecure American demonstrates the singular power of an anthropological perspective for grasping the impact of corporate profit on democratic life, charting the links between policy and vulnerability, and envisioning alternatives to life as an insecure American.Security (Psychology)United StatesNationalismUnited StatesUnited StatesPolitics and government21st centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions21st centuryamerican culture.american life.american society.americans.anthropology.anxious.debt levels.drug addiction.ethnography.gated communities.health care system.health insurance.immigration.insecure america.insecurity.job uncertainty.money.neoliberalism.new economy.policy.politics.poverty.punitive governance.race in america.racial resentments.racism.safety net.terrorism.terrorist attacks.undocumented immigration.united states of america.vulnerability.wal mart.war on drugs.war on terror.warmaking.Security (Psychology)Nationalism973.93Gusterson Hugh1542330Besteman Catherine Lowe985445MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789999503321The insecure American3850873UNINA