Sociologists and the financial crisis - Against security
Laurie Taylor discusses a new book which argues that heightened security measures damage the dignity of daily life. Also, sociology and the financial crisis.
Are the stringent checks at airports really for our benefit? 'Against Security', a new book by the acclaimed American sociologist, Harvey Molotch, explores the complex systems which are designed to make us feel safe in public places. He tells Laurie Taylor why he thinks that security measures in airports and subways, post 9.11, have damaged the pleasure and dignity of our daily lives. They're joined by the design critic, Stephen Bayley. Also, Sociology's failure to address the financial crisis. The social scientist, Alberto Toscano's paper 'Reformism and Melancholia' argues that the twin spectres of Fordism and Keynesianism have prevented sociologists from imagining a future beyond austerity.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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Alberto Toscano
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths University听
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paper 鈥�Reformism and Melancholia: Fordist Ghosts, Keynesian Spectres and Representation of the Crisis鈥�, which was presented at the one day BSA seminar on the financial crisis on听 8th October 2012
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Fanaticism: On The Uses of an Idea
Publisher: Verso
ISBN-10: 184467424X
ISBN-13: 978-1844674244
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Harvey Molotch
Professor of Sociology, Metropolitan Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University听听
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Against Security, How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 069115581X
ISBN-13: 978-0691155814
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Stephen Bayley
Designer, Design critic, Cultural Critic and Author听
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Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything
Publisher: Goodman Books
ISBN-10: 1847960367
ISBN-13: 978-1847960368
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