Saving the Security State Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America
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Biografisk notat
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.Saving the Security State Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America
"[Grewal] expertly demonstrates how, whether via militarism or humanitarianism, with both always racialized, the exceptional citizen labors to uphold US empire and the exceptionalism that justifies and rationalizes it." - Jennifer Kelly (Radical History Review) "In this book, Grewal captures-through her multidisciplinary engagement with the key features of early twenty-first-century American political life-something important and troubling about the odd state of affairs in which we find ourselves here in the post-9/11 digital age. . . . This is a bold, brave, and forthright book." - Tina Fernandes Botts (Hypatia Reviews Online) "[This book] deserves to find its way onto the reading lists of university departments for a variety of subjects. . . a tour de force." - Columba Achilleos-Sarll (International Feminist Journal of Politics) "This book is a carefully crafted volume, with most impressive documentation, a critical contribution that explains the pervasiveness of the 'security mom' and its complement, a fascist near-future." - Daniel Zirker (Australasian Journal of American Studies) "<i>Saving the Security State</i> is a fascinating, nuanced study of a topic that possesses an enormous amount of importance in contemporary society. ... Grewal’s focus on exceptional citizenship and American imperialisms at home and abroad make[s] this book exceptional." - Joseph Michael Gratale (European Journal of American Culture)
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
"[Grewal] expertly demonstrates how, whether via militarism or humanitarianism, with both always racialized, the exceptional citizen labors to uphold US empire and the exceptionalism that justifies and rationalizes it." - Jennifer Kelly (Radical History Review) "In this book, Grewal captures-through her multidisciplinary engagement with the key features of early twenty-first-century American political life-something important and troubling about the odd state of affairs in which we find ourselves here in the post-9/11 digital age. . . . This is a bold, brave, and forthright book." - Tina Fernandes Botts (Hypatia Reviews Online) "[This book] deserves to find its way onto the reading lists of university departments for a variety of subjects. . . a tour de force." - Columba Achilleos-Sarll (International Feminist Journal of Politics) "This book is a carefully crafted volume, with most impressive documentation, a critical contribution that explains the pervasiveness of the 'security mom' and its complement, a fascist near-future." - Daniel Zirker (Australasian Journal of American Studies) "<i>Saving the Security State</i> is a fascinating, nuanced study of a topic that possesses an enormous amount of importance in contemporary society. ... Grewal’s focus on exceptional citizenship and American imperialisms at home and abroad make[s] this book exceptional." - Joseph Michael Gratale (European Journal of American Culture)
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