Death and Security - Memory and Mortality At the Bombsite

Informationen zum Autor Charlotte Heath-Kelly is Professor of Counterterrorism and Public Policy at the University of Warwick Klappentext A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. Zusammenfassung A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites! which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: death and security - the only two certainties1. The problem of dying while resilient2. Containing the spectacle: disaster management3. Reflecting absence? Disaster recovery and the World Trade Center4. Reclaiming place and self-harming architecture: Norwegian experiences of death and security5. Mutating disaster space: itinerant death at the Ground Zero Mosque and the Bali bombsite6. Bombs without bombsites: memory and security without visibilityConclusion: pathologising security through Lacanian desireIndex

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• Authors: Charlotte Heath-Kelly
• Assisted by: Emmanuel Pierre Guittet (Editor), Peter Lawler (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2016
• EAN: 9781784993139
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-313-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana; New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education