Beschreibung:
This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate contemporary society.
Introduction1. Domestic economy2. A shell for the body and mind3. Invasions of privacy4. Fear, crime and the home5. Technologies of the defended home6. Withdraw, defend or destroy7. The fortress archipelago8. Complexes of the domestic fortressIndex