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Safety Orange (Paperback)
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Safety Orange (Paperback)
Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
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Loot Price R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
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How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety
and risk in the neoliberal United States Safety Orange first
emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical
manuals and federal regulations in the United States. Today it is
most visible in the contexts of terror, pandemic, and environmental
alarm systems; traffic control; work safety; and mass
incarceration. In recent decades, the color has become ubiquitous
in American public life-a marker of the extreme poles of state
oversight and abandonment, of capitalist excess and dereliction.
Its unprecedented saturation encodes the tracking of those bodies,
neighborhoods, and infrastructures judged as worthy of care-and
those deemed dangerous and expendable. Here, Anna Watkins Fisher
uses Safety Orange as an interpretive key for theorizing the uneven
distribution of safety and care in twenty-first-century U.S. public
life and for pondering what the color tells us about
neoliberalism's intensifying impact often hiding in plain sight in
ordinary and commonplace phenomena. Forerunners: Ideas First is a
thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications.
Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws
on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media,
conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic
exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense
thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
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