Death and security

A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety.

Introduction: death and security - the only two certainties
1. The problem of dying while resilient
2. Containing the spectacle: disaster management
3. Reflecting absence? Disaster recovery and the World Trade Center
4. Reclaiming place and self-harming architecture: Norwegian experiences of death and security
5. Mutating disaster space: itinerant death at the Ground Zero Mosque and the Bali bombsite
6. Bombs without bombsites: memory and security without visibility
Conclusion: pathologising security through Lacanian desire
Index