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In the twenty-first century, a growing culture of fear is driving homeowners to retreat into fortified dwellings, concealed bunker pads and gated developments. Atkinson and Blandy explore the anxieties driving this retreat, ultimately linking them to 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 society today. Drawing on perspectives and research from criminology, socio-legal studies, urban studies and sociology, they uncover a challenging vision of the private home as a site of wavering anxiety and security, exclusion and warmth, where dreams of retreat and autonomy mesh closely with the defining principles of neoliberal governance.
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Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield Sarah Blandy is Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date October 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781784995317 / 1784995312
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 17.98 GBP
- Pages240
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- Illustration39 black & white illustrations
- Biblio NotesIntroduction 1. Domestic economy 2. A shell for the body and mind 3. Invasions of privacy 4. Fear, crime and the home 5. Technologies of the defended home 6. Withdraw, defend or destroy 7. The fortress archipelago 8. Complexes of the domestic fortress Index
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