Domestic Fortress - Fear and the New Home Front (Paperback)

Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership. This book offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, the book considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants, and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Rowland Atkinson • Sarah Blandy
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-78499-531-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	1-78499-531-2
Barcode:	9781784995317

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