{"product_id":"9780008716370","title":"Age of Security : The Rise of a Global Obsession","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Andersson, Ruben \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 13\/08\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008716370,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brilliantly thought-provoking'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARK GALEOTTI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'This is not normal. It can be resisted. Find out how’ ANTHONY LOEWENSTEIN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  What would you give up to feel safe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The security industry has captured our politics and our private lives. From rogue states to smart doorbells, someone is always keeping a watchful eye – and we’re paying a heavy price. Anthropologist Ruben Andersson shows how Big Security rose to power, generating unprecedented profits while failing to protect us. In this page-turning dispatch from security’s frontlines – across the divides separating political right and left and global rich and poor – he pursues police chiefs in Swedish suburbs, shelters with migrants in Mexico, bunkers down with peacekeepers in Mali and mingles with arms dealers in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Everywhere, he finds that our shared obsession with security is an act of retreat: high walls, constant surveillance and punitive policies offer the illusion of control while fuelling paranoia and precarity. Every tracking app installed, border fortified, or emergency law passed makes us more fearful and less free. Our age of security is a dystopian response to political failure – but it’s not too late to replace runaway security with a humanist vision where fear no longer controls us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Privacy, freedom, democratic control – we have already given up so much in the name of safety. But once we see how security has trapped us, we can start to break free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Propulsive and urgent … a panoramic exploration of our world' MARTHA SPURRIER\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57344353763701,"sku":"9780008716370","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008716370.jpg?v=1783498617","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008716370","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}