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9781517913106: Insecurity (21st Century Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1517913101 ISBN 13: 9781517913106
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2022

Synopsis

Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment

Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores the concept of insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, economic, political, and social life in the West. The essays illuminate how attempts to make human and nonhuman systems secure and resilient end up having the opposite effect, making insecurity the default state of life today.

Unique in its wide disciplinary breadth and variety of topics and methodological approaches—from intellectual history and cultural critique to case studies, qualitative ethnography, and personal narrative—Insecurity is written predominantly from the viewpoint of the United States. The contributors’ analyses include the securitization of nongovernmental aid to Palestine, Bangladeshi climate refugees, and the privatization of U.S. military forces; the history of the concept of insecurity and the securitization of finance; racialized urban development in Augusta, Georgia; Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and the consequences of the Marie Kondo method; and the intricate politics of sexual harassment in the U.S. academy.

Contributors: Neel Ahuja, U of California, Santa Cruz; Aneesh Aneesh, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Lisa Bhungalia, Kent State U; Jennifer Doyle, U of California, Riverside; Annie McClanahan, U of California, Irvine; Andrea Miller, Florida Atlantic U; Mark Neocleous, Brunel U London; A. Naomi Paik, U of Illinois, Chicago; Maureen Ryan, U of South Carolina; Saskia Sassen, Columbia U.

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About the Author

Richard Grusin is Distinguished Professor of English and former director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is editor of The Nonhuman Turn, Anthropocene Feminism, After Extinction, and Ends of Cinema, all from Minnesota.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1517913101
ISBN 13 
9781517913106
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272
Editor
Grusin Richard