Today’s home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership. This book offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and findi...
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Introduction
1. Domestic economy
2. A shell for the body and mind
3. Invasions of privacy
4. Fear, crime and the home
5. Technologies of the defended home
6. Withdraw, d...
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Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield
Sarah Blandy is Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield
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