Domestic fortress
Fear and the new home front
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership. This book offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, the book considers the fantasies and realit…
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Weitere Autoren: Blandy, Sarah
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-0817-3
- EAN: 9781526108173
- Produktnummer: 32341271
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'576 KB
- Abbildungen: 39 black & white illustrations
Über den Autor
Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of SheffieldSarah Blandy is Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield
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