Saving the Security State
Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America(Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America(Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)


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In Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the “exceptional citizens”-primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the country from racialized others. Under advanced neoliberalism, Grewal shows, others in the United States strive to become exceptional by participating in humanitarian projects that compensate for the security state's inability to provide for the welfare of its citizens. In her analyses of microfinance programs in the global South, security moms, the murders at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim charities, Grewal exposes the fissures and contradictions at the heart of the US neoliberal empire and the centrality of race, gender, and religion to the securitized state.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Exceptional Citizens? Saving and Surveilling in Advanced Neoliberal Times  1 1. Katrina, American Exceptionalism, and the Security State  33 2. American Humanitarian Citizenship: The "Soft" Power of Empire  59 3. Muslims, Missionaries, and Humanitarians  87 4. "Security Moms" and "Security Feminists": Securitizing Family and State  118 5. Digital Natives: Threats, Technologies, Markets  144 Coda. The "Shooter"  185 Notes  205 Bibliography  261 Index  309

About the Author :
Inderpal Grewal is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms and Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel, and coeditor of Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism, all also published by Duke University Press.

Review :
"[Grewal] expertly demonstrates how, whether via militarism or humanitarianism, with both always racialized, the exceptional citizen labors to uphold US empire and the exceptionalism that justifies and rationalizes it."  - Jennifer Kelly (Radical History Review) "In this book, Grewal captures-through her multidisciplinary engagement with the key features of early twenty-first-century American political life-something important and troubling about the odd state of affairs in which we find ourselves here in the post-9/11 digital age. . . . This is a bold, brave, and forthright book." - Tina Fernandes Botts (Hypatia Reviews Online) "[This book] deserves to find its way onto the reading lists of university departments for a variety of subjects. . . a tour de force." - Columba Achilleos-Sarll (International Feminist Journal of Politics) "This book is a carefully crafted volume, with most impressive documentation, a critical contribution that explains the pervasiveness of the 'security mom' and its complement, a fascist near-future." - Daniel Zirker (Australasian Journal of American Studies) "Saving the Security State is a fascinating, nuanced study of a topic that possesses an enormous amount of importance in contemporary society. ... Grewal’s focus on exceptional citizenship and American imperialisms at home and abroad make[s] this book exceptional." - Joseph Michael Gratale (European Journal of American Culture)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822368984
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822368986
  • Publisher Date: 29 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
  • Weight: 476 gr


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