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Insecure American

Name: Insecure American
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520259713
Price: 927 CZK
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How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It

Autor: Hugh Gusterson

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: University of California Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing...

Informace o knize

Autor

Hugh Gusterson

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

392

EAN

9780520259713

ISBN

0520259718

Enbook ID

04617791

Vydavatel

University of California Press

Hmotnost

526

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 23

Kompletní popis

Americans 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.