Grewal Saving the Security State

Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7255-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism, under which everyday life is militarized, humanitarianism serves imperial aims, and white Christian men become exceptional citizens tasked with protecting the nation from racialized others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grewal, Inderpal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Exceptional Citizens? Saving and Surveilling in Advanced Neoliberal Times 1
1. Katrina, American Exceptionalism, and the Security State 33
2. American Humanitarian Citizenship: The "Soft" Power of Empire 59
3. Muslims, Missionaries, and Humanitarians 87
4. "Security Moms" and "Security Feminists": Securitizing Family and State 118
5. Digital Natives: Threats, Technologies, Markets 144
Coda. The "Shooter" 185
Notes 205
Bibliography 261
Index 309

Über Autor(innen)

Inderpal Grewal is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms and Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel, and coeditor of Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism, all also published by Duke University Press.