{"title":"Ruben Andersson","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuben Andersson’s work explores the complex intersections of security, migration, and global politics with rigorous insight. His books challenge conventional perspectives by delving into the unseen forces shaping contemporary societies, inviting readers to reconsider notions of safety and control in an interconnected world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a sharp eye for detail and a commitment to revealing hidden realities, Andersson’s writing is essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e. His thought-provoking narratives illuminate the challenges and contradictions at the heart of modern governance and social order.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"no-go-world-by-ruben-andersson-9780520379152","title":"No Go World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWar-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants—from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote “danger zones.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead of buying into apocalyptic visions, Andersson takes aim at how Western states and international organizations conduct military, aid, and border interventions in a dangerously myopic fashion, further disconnecting the world’s rich and poor. Using drones, proxy forces, border reinforcement, and outsourced aid, risk-obsessed powers are helping to remap the world into zones of insecurity and danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a vision of chaos crashing into fortified borders, with national and global politics riven by fear. Andersson contends that we must reconnect and snap out of this dangerous spiral, which affects us whether we live in Texas or Timbuktu. Only by developing a new cartography of hope can we move beyond the political geography of fear that haunts us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Go World\u003c\/em\u003e challenges these narratives and calls for a reimagining of how we view and engage with these areas of perceived danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471312339180,"sku":"9780520379152","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520379152-no-go-world.jpg?v=1775238010"},{"product_id":"age-of-security-by-ruben-andersson-9780008716387","title":"Age of Security","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePropulsive and urgent … a panoramic exploration of our world’ Martha Spurrier\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would you give up to feel safe?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe security industry has captured our politics and our private lives. From rogue states to Ring doorbells, someone is always keeping a watchful eye – and we’re paying a heavy price. Anthropologist Ruben Andersson shows how Big Security rose to power, generating unprecedented profits while failing to protect us. In this page-turning dispatch from security’s frontlines – across the divides separating political right and left and global rich and poor – he pursues police chiefs in Swedish suburbs, shelters with migrants in Mexico, bunkers down with peacekeepers in Mali and mingles with arms dealers in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverywhere, he finds that our shared obsession with security is an act of retreat: high walls, constant surveillance and punitive policies offer the illusion of control while fuelling paranoia and precarity. Every tracking app installed, border fortified, or emergency law passed makes us more fearful and less free. Our age of security is a dystopian response to political failure – but it’s not too late to replace runaway security with a humanist vision where fear no longer controls us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrivacy, freedom, democratic control – we have already given up so much in the name of safety. But once we see how security has trapped us, we can start to break free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47665516052716,"sku":"9780008716387","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780008716387-age-of-security.jpg?v=1779748150"},{"product_id":"wreckonomics-by-david-keen-9780197645925","title":"Wreckonomics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running \"fight against migration\" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do such \"failing\" policies persist for so long? And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWreckonomics\u003c\/em\u003e, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyse why disastrous policies live on even when it has become apparent that they do not work. The perverse outcomes of the fights against terror, migration, and drugs are more than a blip or an anomaly. Rather, the proliferation of wars and pseudo-wars has become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of political advantage and profit. From combating crime to the war on drugs, from civil wars to global wars and even \"covid wars,\" chronic failure has been harnessed to the appearance of success. Over a wide variety of spheres, problems have persisted and worsened not so much despite the \"wars\" and \"fights\" waged against them as thanks to these floundering endeavours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCovering a range of cases around the world, \u003cem\u003eWreckonomics\u003c\/em\u003e exposes and interrogates the incentive systems that allow destructive policies to flourish in the face of systemic failure while offering strategies for tackling our addiction to waging war on everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934434902252,"sku":"9780197645925","price":84.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/aa347605420e1883daeaf78d724149e7.jpg?v=1783920669"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/ruben-andersson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}