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Target Markets - International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall / Suzi Mirgani.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 91Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839433522
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 320
LOC classification:
  • HV6431 .M576 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall -- 2. Developing the Shopping Mall -- 3. Designing the Shopping Mall -- 4. Securing the Shopping Mall -- 5. Spectacles of the Shopping Mall -- 6. Conclusion: Specters of the Shopping Mall -- Endnotes -- Bibliography
Summary: This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture - the most mainstream and the most extreme - meet on common ground.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall -- 2. Developing the Shopping Mall -- 3. Designing the Shopping Mall -- 4. Securing the Shopping Mall -- 5. Spectacles of the Shopping Mall -- 6. Conclusion: Specters of the Shopping Mall -- Endnotes -- Bibliography

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This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture - the most mainstream and the most extreme - meet on common ground.

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