Target Markets - International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall

Titel: Target Markets - International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall
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Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, 2016
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Edition Kulturwissenschaft
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ISBN: 9783837633528 ; 9783839433522
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  • Acknowledgements
  • p. 7
  • 1
  • Introduction: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall
  • p. 9
  • Terrorism at the Mall
  • p. 12
  • The Politics of Shopping
  • p. 16
  • The Ideological Complexities of Terrorism and Capitalism
  • p. 21
  • 2
  • Developing the Shopping Mall
  • p. 27
  • The Making of a Middle Class
  • p. 28
  • The Globalization of Consumption and Contestation
  • p. 30
  • Standardization of Consumption
  • p. 32
  • Neoliberalism and the City
  • p. 34
  • Make Way for the Mall
  • p. 36
  • Transnational Networks of Capitalism, Terrorism, and Poverty
  • p. 39
  • 3
  • Designing the Shopping Mall
  • p. 45
  • A Brief History of the Shopping Mall
  • p. 47
  • Exhibitions and Fairs
  • p. 48
  • Arcades
  • p. 49
  • Department Stores
  • p. 51
  • The Shopping Center
  • p. 55
  • The Contemporary Shopping Mall
  • p. 57
  • Architectonics of Entrapment
  • p. 61
  • Atmospherics of Enchantment
  • p. 65
  • The Spectacle of Consumption: A Carnival of Contested Identities
  • p. 69
  • 4
  • Securing the Shopping Mall
  • p. 75
  • The Architecture of Security
  • p. 79
  • The Panopticon of Shopping: Discipline and Purchase
  • p. 81
  • Marketing Violence
  • p. 87
  • Surveillance for Terrorism
  • p. 89
  • Shaping Employee Behavior
  • p. 90
  • 5
  • Spectacles of the Shopping Mall
  • p. 95
  • Digital Media and the Globalization of Terror
  • p. 98
  • Social Media and Personal Narratives
  • p. 102
  • Commodification of Terror and Media Productions
  • p. 106
  • 6
  • Conclusion: Specters of the Shopping Mall
  • p. 115
  • Privatizing Public Space
  • p. 117
  • Social Contract vs. Commercial Contract
  • p. 119
  • Escape from the Mall
  • p. 121
  • Chimeras of Consumption
  • p. 125
  • Endnotes
  • p. 129
  • Bibliography
  • p. 173