LEADER 04109nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910461295803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-94508-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520945081 035 $a(CKB)2670000000088570 035 $a(EBL)685409 035 $a(OCoLC)727649107 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000591199 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336339 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591199 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10672859 035 $a(PQKB)11427879 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685409 035 $a(DE-B1597)519372 035 $a(OCoLC)1058090081 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520945081 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL685409 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675756 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000088570 100 $a20090410d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe insecure American$b[electronic resource] $ehow we got here and what we should do about it /$fedited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (387 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-25971-8 311 $a0-520-25969-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. A Nation of Gated Communities -- $t2. Warmaking as the American Way of Life -- $t3. Republic of Fear The Rise of Punitive Governance in America -- $t4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World -- $t5. The Age of Wal-Mart -- $t6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's Story -- $t7. Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs -- $t8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities -- $t9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood -- $t10. Uneasy Street -- $t11. Body and Soul Profits from Poverty -- $t12. Useless Suffering The War on Homeless Drug Addicts -- $t13. Walling Out Immigrants -- $t14. Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today -- $t15. Deploying Law as a Weapon in America's War on Terror -- $t16. Death and Dying in Anxious America -- $t17. Get Religion -- $tcontributors -- $tIndex 330 $aAmericans 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. 606 $aSecurity (Psychology)$zUnited States 606 $aNationalism$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y21st century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSecurity (Psychology) 615 0$aNationalism 676 $a973.93 701 $aGusterson$b Hugh$01046035 701 $aBesteman$b Catherine Lowe$0985445 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461295803321 996 $aThe insecure American$92478402 997 $aUNINA