{"product_id":"age-of-security-ruben-andersson","title":"Age of Security - Ruben Andersson","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat would you give up to feel safe?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe security industry has captured our politics and our private lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom rogue states to smart doorbells, someone is always keeping a watchful eye - and we're paying a heavy price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnthropologist Ruben Andersson shows how Big Security rose to power, generating unprecedented profits while failing to protect us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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\n\u003cp\u003eEverywhere, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery tracking app installed, border fortified, or emergency law passed makes us more fearful and less free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur 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\n\u003cp\u003ePrivacy, 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","brand":"William Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54442126770513,"sku":"9780008716387","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/4618\/2960\/files\/AgeofSecurity.jpg?v=1785408996","url":"https:\/\/lattesandliterature.com\/products\/age-of-security-ruben-andersson","provider":"Latte's and Literature","version":"1.0","type":"link"}