Safe at home – who profits when you’re afraid of your neighbours?
Your personal safety is big business, so much so that it’s given rise to “security capitalism”, a phenomenon where attempts to buy personal safety shape the world around us. As security becomes just another status symbol, do these gadgets make us safer or do they create a whole new list of anxieties – a self-fulfilling prophecy of perceived threat and risk aversion? This conversation 'Trapped: Does the security industry make us less safe?' was recorded at the CUNY Graduate Centre. SpeakersMark MaguireProfessor of anthropology at Maynooth University, co-author, Trapped: Life Under Security…
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