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Selling Us the Fortress - The Promotion of Techno-Security Equipment for Schools (Paperback, New edition)
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Selling Us the Fortress - The Promotion of Techno-Security Equipment for Schools (Paperback, New edition)
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Equipment developed for wartime is now being seen more often in
everyday institutions, and even our schools have become sites of
high-tech security and, some would say, paranoia. The justification
for the presence of this network of surveillance, screening,
detection and tracking systems is that it is the only sensible
reaction to the fears for personal safety brought about by the
school shootings and terrorist attacks of recent years - we must
protect our children, perhaps even from their school friends.
Casella here questions this assumption, shining an investigative
light on the political and commercial forces that have led to the
present climate of fear. He shows how expensive security equipment
is sold in the same slick business-like way as any other commodity,
and highlights the trend of turning schools into corporatized and
militarized zones that prepare young people for a life spent
accepting limitations of certain freedoms in return for an
ill-defined and problematic concept of safety.
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