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Description: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.oreword by Barbara EhrenreichAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Catherine Besteman and Hugh GustersonPart One Fortress America1. A nation of Gated CommunitiesSetha M. Low2.Warmaking as the AmericanWay of lifeCatherine Lutz3. Republic of fear: The rise of Punitive Governance in AmericaRoger N. LancasterPart Two The New Economy4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the WorldDavid Graeber5.The Age of Wal-MartJane L. Collins6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter’s storyChristine J.Walley7. Racism, risk, and the new Color of Dirty JobsLee D. BakerPart Three Insecurity as a Profit Center8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy InsecuritiesJoseph Dumit9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing ChildhoodJuliet B. SchorPart Four The Most Vulnerable10. Uneasy streetT.M. Luhrmann11. Body and soul: Profits from PovertyBrettWilliams12. Useless suffering: The War on Homeless Drug AddictsPhilippe Bourgois13.Walling out ImmigrantsPeter KwongPart Five Insecurity and Terror14. Compounding Insecurity:What the neocon Core reveals about America todayJanine R.Wedel15. Deploying law as aWeapon in America’sWar on terrorSusan F. HirschPart Six Insecurities of Body and Spirit16. Death and Dying in Anxious AmericaNancy Scheper-Hughes17. Get religionSusan HardingNotesList of ContributorsIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It. To get started finding The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.oreword by Barbara EhrenreichAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Catherine Besteman and Hugh GustersonPart One Fortress America1. A nation of Gated CommunitiesSetha M. Low2.Warmaking as the AmericanWay of lifeCatherine Lutz3. Republic of fear: The rise of Punitive Governance in AmericaRoger N. LancasterPart Two The New Economy4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the WorldDavid Graeber5.The Age of Wal-MartJane L. Collins6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter’s storyChristine J.Walley7. Racism, risk, and the new Color of Dirty JobsLee D. BakerPart Three Insecurity as a Profit Center8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy InsecuritiesJoseph Dumit9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing ChildhoodJuliet B. SchorPart Four The Most Vulnerable10. Uneasy streetT.M. Luhrmann11. Body and soul: Profits from PovertyBrettWilliams12. Useless suffering: The War on Homeless Drug AddictsPhilippe Bourgois13.Walling out ImmigrantsPeter KwongPart Five Insecurity and Terror14. Compounding Insecurity:What the neocon Core reveals about America todayJanine R.Wedel15. Deploying law as aWeapon in America’sWar on terrorSusan F. HirschPart Six Insecurities of Body and Spirit16. Death and Dying in Anxious AmericaNancy Scheper-Hughes17. Get religionSusan HardingNotesList of ContributorsIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It. To get started finding The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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