Grewal Inderpal Grewal

Saving the Security State (eBook, PDF)

Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

In Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the "e;exceptional citizens"e;-primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the country from racialized others. Under advanced neoliberalism, Grewal shows, others in the United States strive to become exceptional by participating in humanitarian projects that compensate for the security state's inability to provide for the welfare of its citizens. In her analyses of microfinance programs in the global South, security moms, the murders at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim charities, Grewal exposes the fissures and contradictions at the heart of the US neoliberal empire and the centrality of race, gender, and religion to the securitized state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372554
• Artikelnr.: 54793758

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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