Domestic Fortress Fear and the New Home Front 1st Edition by Rowland Atkinson Sarah Blandy 1526108178 9781526108173

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• ISBN 10: 1526108178
• ISBN 13:9781526108173
• Author:Rowland Atkinson Sarah Blandy

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.

Table contents:

1 Introduction
2 The myths and meanings of home security
3 A shell for the body and mind
4 Invasions of privacy
5 Fear, crime and the home
6 Technologies of the defended home
7 Withdraw, defend or destroy
8 The fortress archipelago
9 Complexes of the domestic fortress

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