Part One. Bad Dreams : American Identity Post-9/11 -- History, Freedom and Bureaucracy / Andrew Moore -- Mythological Fictions and the Game Paradigm / Niall Heffernan -- The American Dream : Capital, Codes and Consensus in the Early 21st Century / Michael Gow -- "It's all in the game" : Citizenship as the "Missing Middle" / Michael Lister -- Part Two. The Target : The War on Drugs and Its Cost -- The Corners of Crime / Robert Andersson, Jorgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik -- The Paper Bag Compromise : Hiding the Problem of Drug Dependency in Hamsterdam / J.D. Taylor -- Insurgency, Accidental Guerrillas and Gang Culture / Tiffany Potter and Tobias Sirzyk -- The War on Drugs and the War on Terror / Arin Keeble -- Part Three. The Detail : Domestic Policy in Bush-era America -- Rethinking Space / Anca M. Pusca -- Watching, Policing : Surveillance and Complicity / Ivan Stacy -- A Dystopian Fable About America's Urban Poor / Peter Dreier and John Atlas -- Post-9/11 Educational Reform and the Epistemology of Ignorance : A Critique of No Child Left Behind / Laura Bolf-Beliveau and Ralph Beliveau.
Summary:
"In post-9/11 America, while all eyes were on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Wire focused on the dark realities of domestic life. This collection of essays examines The Wire in these terms, covering the unforseen consequences of the War on Drugs, the racial and economic division of America's cities, the surveillance state and the meaning of citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.
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