The Insecure American
How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It
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 econo…
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Weitere Autoren: Besteman, Catherine (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-520-94508-1
- EAN: 9780520945081
- Produktnummer: 21595927
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'086 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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