04091nam 2200649Ia 450 991114339350332120251117092446.09780804784344080478434510.1515/9780804784344(CKB)2670000000276379(EBL)1056987(OCoLC)818883162(SSID)ssj0000755854(PQKBManifestationID)11484478(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755854(PQKBWorkID)10730795(PQKB)10452740(MiAaPQ)EBC1056987(DE-B1597)564925(DE-B1597)9780804784344(Au-PeEL)EBL1056987(CaPaEBR)ebr10621140(OCoLC)1178769383(Perlego)745209(EXLCZ)99267000000027637920120807d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrGoverning security the hidden origins of American security agencies /Mariano-Florentino Cuellar1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford Law Books20131 online resource (337 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780804770699 0804770697 9780804770705 0804770700 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Table of Contents --List of Tables and Figures --Preface and Acknowledgments --List of Abbreviations and Acronyms --Chapter 1. The Twin Problems of Governing Security --Chapter 2. Rethinking Law, Security, and Organizational Structure --Chapter 3. Arming Democracy --Chapter 4. Just How Secure Are You at This Moment? --Chapter 5. Democracies Need Not Always Be Weak --Chapter 6. Crosscurrents or Greater Velocity --Chapter 7. Maybe It’s Time to Think Big --Chapter 8. The Political Logic and Early Legacy of DHS --Chapter 9. No Matter What Fate May Have in Store --Chapter 10. An Organizational Gloss on Separation of Powers --Conclusion. One Supreme Objective for the Future --Notes --Bibliography --IndexStatutes and regulations are frequently designed to affect the public in specific ways. But exactly how these laws ultimately impact the public often depends on how politicians go about securing control of the complex public agencies that implement policies, and how these organizations in turn are used to define the often-contested concept of "national security." Governing Security explores this dynamic by investigating the surprising history of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency––which eventually became today's Department of Health and Human Services––and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security. By describing the legal, political, and institutional history of both organizations, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar offers a compelling account of crucial developments affecting the basic architecture of our nation. He shows how Americans end up choosing security goals not through an elaborate technical process, but in lively and overlapping settings involving conflict over statutory programs, agency autonomy, presidential power, and priorities for domestic and international risk regulation. Ultimately, as Cuéllar shows, ongoing fights about the scope of national security reshape the very structure of government and the intricate process through which statutes and regulations are implemented, particularly during––or in anticipation of––a national crisis.National securityUnited StatesInternal securityUnited StatesNational securityInternal security355.033073355/.033073Cuéllar Mariano-FlorentinoMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911143393503321UNINA04471nam 22006374a 450 991113562930332120251117120051.0978159734674015973467489780520936607052093660410.1525/9780520936607(CKB)1000000000003931(EBL)222906(OCoLC)70743334(SSID)ssj0000177688(PQKBManifestationID)11156296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177688(PQKBWorkID)10218770(PQKB)10359077(MiAaPQ)EBC222906(DE-B1597)520387(OCoLC)50639283(DE-B1597)9780520936607(Au-PeEL)EBL222906(CaPaEBR)ebr10051529(Perlego)552440(EXLCZ)99100000000000393120011017d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIn other Los Angeleses multicentric performance art /Meiling Cheng1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (xxxiv, 407 pages) illustrations"Published in association with the Southern California Studies Center of the University of Southern California."9780520229532 0520229533 9780520235151 0520235150 Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-392) and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Preface --Acknowledgments --1. Inscribing Multicentricity --2. Out of Order --3. Engendering Other/Selves --4. Elia Arce --5. A Hetero-locus in Process --6. What's in a Name? --7. Kinesthetic Transmutation of Theatricality --Epilogue --Notes --IndexPerformance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearly four decades, finding its own centers of activity, moving and changing as the margins have reconstituted themselves. The notion of multicentricity serves, somewhat paradoxically, as the unifying motif in Cheng's imaginative views of center and periphery, self and other, and "mainstream" and "marginal" cultures. She analyzes individual artists and performances in detail, bringing her own "center" gracefully and unmistakably into contact with all those others. Without suggesting that her approach is definitive, she offers a way of thinking and talking coherently about particularly elusive, ephemeral artwork. Cheng describes performance art as "an intermedia visual art form that uses theatrical elements in presentation." Performance art, which uses the living body as its central medium, occurs only "here" and only "now." Because it is intentionally volatile, highly adaptable, and often site-specific, with emphasis on audience interaction, context is inseparable from the work itself. When Cheng writes about Suzanne Lacy or Tim Miller, Johanna Went or Oguri and Renzoku, Sacred Naked Nature Girls or osseus labyrint, she is conscious of her role in extending their creative expression. As members of the "virtual audience," readers and viewers of other documentation concerning performance art are arrayed outside the center represented by a given artist and the circle represented by the immediate witnesses to a performance, but all may entertain what Cheng calls a conceptual ownership of the work. A person who reads about a performance, she says, may feel more affected by this virtual encounter than a person who has seen it live, and may reimagine it as a "prosthetic performance." Cheng's writing draws us into the many centers where a vibrant contemporary art phenomenon and a fascinating urban environment interact. Published in association with the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern CaliforniaPerformance artCaliforniaLos AngelesPerformance art700/.9794/94Cheng Meiling1960-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911135629303321UNINA