Wire and America's Dark Corners

Arin Keeble is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. He has published widely on contemporary fiction, television, disaster and terrorism. Ivan Stacy is a lecturer in English at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. He specializes in contemporary fiction, and his research interests include complicity and the ethics of witnessing and testimony.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vPreface 1Introduction 3Part One. Bad Dreams: American Identity Post–9/11History, Freedom and Bureaucracy (Andrew Moore) 13Mythological Fictions and the Game Paradigm (Niall Heffernan) 31The American Dream: Capital, Codes and Consensus in the Early 21st Century (Michael Gow) 49“It’s all in the game”: Citizenship as the “Missing Middle” (Michael Lister) 67Part Two. The Target: The War on Drugs and Its CostThe Corners of Crime (Robert Andersson, Jørgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik) 81The Paper Bag Compromise: Hiding the Problem of Drug Dependency in Hamsterdam (J.D. Taylor) 95Insurgency, Accidental Guerrillas and Gang Culture (Tiffany Potter and Tobias Sirzyk) 114The War on Drugs and the War on Terror (Arin Keeble) 133Part Three. The Detail: Domestic Policy in ­Bush-era America Rethinking Space (Anca M. Pusca) 153Watching, Policing: Surveillance and Complicity (Ivan Stacy) 170A Dystopian Fable About America’s Urban Poor (Peter Dreier and John Atlas) 192Post–9/11 Educational Reform and the Epistemology of Ignorance: A Critique of No Child Left Behind (Laura ­Bolf-Beliveau and Ralph Beliveau) 208About the Contributors 221Index 225

“exposes the darkest corners of America. It is must read for every American who cares for their country”—The Washington BookReview.