{"product_id":"9781452945309","title":"Security in the Bubble: Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the South African city of Durban, \u003ci\u003eSecurity in the Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities have tried to reinvent space, using it as a “positive” technique of governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine Hentschel traces the contours of two emerging urban regimes of governing security in contemporary Durban: \u003ci\u003ehandsome space\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003einstant space\u003c\/i\u003e. Handsome space is about aesthetic and affective communication as means to making places safe. Instant space, on the other hand, addresses the crime-related personal “navigation” systems employed by urban residents whenever they circulate through the city. While handsome space embraces the powers of attraction, instant space operates through the powers of fleeing. In both regimes, security is conceived not as a public good but as a situational experience that can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo longer reducible to the after-pains of racial apartheid, this city’s fragmentation is now better conceptualized, according to Hentschel, as a heterogeneous ensemble of bubbles of imagined safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134843797744,"sku":"9781452945309","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452945309_p0.jpg?v=1763848332","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452945309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}