{"title":"Ruben Andersson","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuben Andersson offers incisive explorations into contemporary global challenges, blending rigorous research with compelling narratives. His work often delves into the complexities of security, migration, and the politics that shape public discourse in today’s interconnected world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analyses that illuminate the power structures and social dynamics influencing modern societies. Andersson’s books invite reflection on urgent issues, making them essential reading for those interested in \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e.\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":"Arotahi Agency","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"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ruben-andersson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}