...Robert Harvey No different from the populations of any other nation, Americans aspire to comfort and safety. This essay contends that the citizens of the United States have for generations suffered from a collective historical amnesia that makes them compliant to successive political...

...Lynn Marie Houston The U.S. meat industry's tarnished reputation after the mad cow disease crisis has driven some ranchers to a breaking point, in which they blame food safety issues on illegal immigrants. This essay investigates the activities of a group called Ranch Rescue, whose members “round...

...Susan Squier The rhetoric of risk and safety has shaped, and unfortunately limited, our contemporary reservoir of responses to H5N1, the avian flu virus. This essay turns to an old children's story, “The Story of Chicken-Licken,” to recover the folk wisdom obscured with the development...

... as “localism” is used to police the beach. Through an analysis of this conflict, I show how localism and safety work in an everyday context as a complex embodied, social, and spatial practice that creates “safety maps.” As I move through the personal level of safety of those involved, I explain how larger...

...George Matthew Dutcher Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 National Safety of the United States, Past and Future* George Matthew Dutcher Professor of History in Wesleyan University, Connecticut We must depend in every time of national peril, in the future as in the past, not upon...

...John R. Alden The Committees of Safety of Westmoreland and Fincastle: Proceedings of the County Committees 1774-1776 . Edited by Harwell Richard Barksdale . Richmond : Virginia State Library Publications, No. 1 , 1956 . Pp. 127 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957...

... was and is that of freedom, of subjects released unto their own making. Choice, I argue, operates within this frame to demarcate cultures of constraint versus those of freedom, and challenges strict notions of safety and risk. Drawing on research in Australia and Hong Kong, it appears that within very different contexts...

... argue that the case of Guantánamo constitutes an example of the underlying interdependence between the state and the suspension of the rule of law. It points to how the rhetoric of safety has been deployed by the current administration in the United States to justify an expansion and intensification...

..., the essay maps a landscape of policed spaces and borders that have as much to do with preserving food safety as they do with providing a socially constructed sense of order. In line with anthropologist Mary Douglas's work on purity versus contamination, the essay scrutinizes the blurred boundary between...

... of the “rights of man,” as they were defined more than two centuries ago, but it also calls into question the concept of universalism, as certain people are profiled as possible terrorists and others are not. The rhetoric of safety is a convenient cover for serious challenges to the French way of life...

... the safety of individuals within Indigenous communities. Imposed criminal justice systems have not ensured the maintenance of social order in Indigenous communities. This essay explores the relationship between Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous overrepresentation in the criminal justice system...

... was the culmination of a state Republican Party that had for years maintained effective minority rule by grafting the tax wedge onto the racial wedge and a Democratic opposition that came to accept the description of public infrastructure as a “safety net” for society's alleged losers. University administrators...

... and their connection to concepts of “safety,” “comfort,” “cleanliness,” and “sameness.” How might we instead imagine restrooms as sites of collective belonging? © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 activism disability trans References Ball Aimee Lee . 2015 . “The Symbols of Change.” Sunday...

... in misogyny, homophobia, and the fear of gender non-conformance. However, rather than confront these underlying cultural apprehensions head on, opponents and proponents of gender-neutral bathrooms narrowly pose the issue as a question of safety, framing it as an ostensibly objective problem that can be solved...

...Ludivine Bantigny; Sylvia Gorelick “This is not a yellow vest ( gilet jaune ). It’s much more!!!” Evoking Magritte’s famous phrase “This is not a pipe,” the slogan written on this safety vest in September 2019 holds great significance. Indeed, its meaning far exceeds the garment’s purpose...

... for a committee of five persons to be chosen in each county to see that the resolves of the convention be properly carried out. In pursuance of the recommendation contained in the last clause, county committees, or as they were familiarly known Committees of Safety, were organized throughout the province. In some...

... organi­ zations: the first two were committees of the Convention the Com­ mittee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security, com­ posed of and elected by the deputies; the third was a Revolutionary Tribunal, created, appointed, and controlled by it. These organi­ zations constituted a kind...

... for the Court in Madame Schwimmer s case, said, Whatever tends to lessen the willingness of citizens to discharge their duty to bear arms in the country s defence detracts from the strength and safety of the government. If all or a large number of citizens oppose such defence the good order and happiness...

... building, as technologies morphed humans from cogs in a machine to independent entrepreneurs in charge of their own destinies. But micro-entrepreneurship also meant, in the making of companies like Uber and Lyft, that workers were excluded from the safety net. As work-law protections like the time-based...

... a huge suc- cess in the United Kingdom, where it was first published—Conn Iggulden explained: “We’ve become aware that the whole ‘health and safety’ overprotective culture isn’t doing our sons any...