Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Winnubst, Shannon

Titel

The Long Arc of Safety: A Review of Three Recent Works on the History, Logic, and Rhetoric of Security

Ist Teil von

• Women's Studies Quarterly, 2011-04, Vol.39 (1/2), p.291-295

Ort / Verlag

New York: The Feminist Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The collection covers a wide range of topics: the intertwining rhetoric against terrorism and same-sex marriage (Bloodsworth-Lugo and Lugo-Lugo) and international LGBT violence (Gay); the racializing of terrorism as "black" and of same-sex marriage as "white" that divides antiwar efforts from LGBT movements to legalize same-sex marriage (Guerrero); the subtle aesthetics of the photos from Abu Ghraib that enact new racial codes to allow "grey zones" of violence in the name of war (Streamas); the colonial discourses of the war on terror as seen through the maligning of Ward Churchill - and, by extension, all of academia in the United States (King); the infantilizing of the United States, as seen in the racializing moralism of post-9/1 1 children's literature (Lee); the racialized exceptionalism that runs through US history and enables a flaunting of international law in post-9/11 US interrogations of alleged terrorists, such as Jose Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri (Nicho lis); the interlocking discourses of environmentalism and security, particularly as seen through the racializing of undocumented immigrants as "resourcedepleters" (Urban); the containment of the immigrant, racialized body in the US military, particularly through the unnoticed and paradoxical patriotism of "green card soldiers" (Pacleb); and the history of the US split approach regarding Mexican migration and labor, traced from the early twentieth-century Bracero program through the emergence of images of drug dealers and terrorists to contemporary vigilantes at the US -Mexico border (Gordillo). [...] in Permeable Walls, Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz have compiled a critical history of one of the most forgotten aspects of hospitals and asylums: visitation.