How to secure a country : from border policing via weather forecast to social engineering : a visual study of 21st-century statehood /

Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the presence and production of national security. When...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Vitale, Salvatore, 1986- (Editor, Photographer), Willumeit, Lars (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2019]
Subjects:	Security (Psychology) > Switzerland > Pictorial works. Xenophobia > Switzerland > Pictorial works. Fear in art. Art > Themes, motives. Switzerland > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Pictorial works.

Table of Contents:

Seeing the state vs. seeing like a state: how to secure a country as an anti-instructional visual research project / Lars Willumeit
Making Switzerland secure, making security Swiss / Jonas Hagmann
The politics of photography: reflections on SalvatoreVitale's How To Secure a Country / Roland Bleiker
Surveillance and the invisible infrastructures of security-building / Philip Di Salvo.