2. Warmaking as the American Way of Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part one. Fortress America
7. 1. A Nation of Gated Communities 27
8. 2. Warmaking as the American Way of Life 45
9. 3. Republic of Fear The Rise of Punitive Governance in America 63
10. Part two. The New Economy
11. 4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World 79
12. 5. The Age of Wal-Mart 97
13. 6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter’s Story 113
14. 7. Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs 140
15. Part three. Insecurity as a Profit Center
16. 8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities 163
17. 9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood 182
18. Part four. The Most Vulnerable
19. 10. Uneasy Street 207
20. 11. Body and Soul Profits from Poverty 224
21. 12. Useless Suffering The War on Homeless Drug Addicts 238
22. 13. Walling Out Immigrants 255
23. Part five. Insecurity and Terror
24. 14. Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today 273
25. 15. Deploying Law as a Weapon in America’s War on Terror 292
26. Part six. Insecurities of Body and Spirit
27. 16. Death and Dying in Anxious America 317
28. 17. Get Religion 345
29. contributors 362
30. Index 367