The insecure American : how we got here and what we should do about it / edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Other author Gusterson, Hugh.
Other author Besteman, Catherine Lowe.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxiv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Security (Psychology)--United States.
Nationalism--United States.
United States--Politics and government. --21st century.
United States--Social conditions. --21st century.

Contents A nation of gated communities / Setha M. Low -- Warmaking as the American way of life / Catherine Lutz -- Republic of fear : the rise of punitive governance in America / Roger N. Lancaster -- Neoliberalism, or the bureaucratization of the world / David Graeber -- The age of Wal-Mart / Jane L. Collins -- Deindustrializing Chicago : a daughter's story / Christine J. Walley -- Racism, risk, and the new color of dirty jobs / Lee D. Baker -- Normal insecurities, healthy insecurities / Joseph Dumit -- Cultivating insecurity : how marketers are commercializing childhood / Juliet B. Schor -- Uneasy street / T. M. Luhrmann -- Body and soul : profits from poverty / Brett Williams -- Useless suffering : the war on homeless drug addicts / Philippe Bourgois -- Walling out immigrants / Peter Kwong -- Compounding insecurity : what the neocon core reveals about America today / Janine R. Wedel -- Deploying law as a weapon in America's war on terror / Susan F. Hirsch -- Death and dying in anxious America / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Get religion / Susan Harding.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009015363
ISBN9780520259690 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520259696 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520259713 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0520259718 (pbk. : alk. paper)