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1. Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

   Edited by Colin Bennett, Kevin Haggerty

   Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events: Security Games addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60262-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Sociology of Terrorism: Peoples, Places and Processes

   By Stephen Vertigans

   This ground breaking manuscript is the first sociological research based textbook for terrorism. An innovative framework is adopted that draws together historical and modern, local and global, social processes for a range of individuals, groups and societies. By embedding...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57266-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Routledge International Handbook of Surveillance Studies

   Edited by David Lyon, Kevin Haggerty, Kirstie Ball

   Surveillance is now the primary tool for all organizations. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58883-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Government of Chronic Poverty: From the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship?

   Edited by Sam Hickey

   What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty? Can ‘development beyond neoliberalism’ offer the strategies required to challenge such persistent forms of poverty, particularly through efforts to promote citizenship amongst poor people? Drawing on case-study evidence from Africa, Latin America...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59850-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Social Security in Contemporary Japan

   By Mari Osawa

   The present study analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan by way of historical and international comparison, in an effort to explore its current route and future prospects. The present study posits "livelihood security systems" rather than "welfare states" or "welfare regimes"...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-55940-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Retirement Security in the Great Recession

   Edited by Christian Weller

   Few events have posed as many challenges for retirement and retirement policy as the crisis of the late 2000s. At the end of the last decade, the United States experienced the Great Recession—a combination of unprecedented wealth losses and historically high unemployment increases that marked the...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-58903-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Surveillance and Democracy

   Edited by Kevin D. Haggerty, Minas Samatas

   This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-47240-1 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

8. Retirement, Work and Pensions in Ageing Korea

   Edited by Jae-Jin Yang, Thomas Klassen

   Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary. As significant as its economic progress, from a dirt poor and devastated nation in the 1960s, is South Korea’s...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-55172-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Security

   By Lucia Zedner

   Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts, policy changes, and world political events have pushed security to the forefront of the criminological agenda. Distinctions between public safety and private protection,...

   March 2009 | 978-0-415-39176-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    War, Citizenship, Territory

    Edited by Deborah Cowen, Emily Gilbert

    For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy. Given the changing nature of war, one of the more promising areas of scholarly investigation has been the development of new theories of war and war’s impact on society. War, Citizenship...

    2007 | 978-0-415-95693-2 | Hardback (Routledge)