Main entry:

Vitale, Salvatore, 1986- artist, editor, photographer.

Title & Author:

How to secure a country : from border policing via weather forecast to social engineering :a visual study of 21st-century statehood / Salvatore Vitale ; edited by Salvatore Vitale and Lars Willumeit ; with essays by Roland Bleiker [and 3 others].

Publication:

Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2019]
©2019

Description:

279 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland (February 23-May 26 2019).
Includes bibliographical references.
Seeing the state vs. seeing like a state: how to secure a country as an anti-instructional visual research project / Lars Willumeit -- Making Switzerland secure, making security Swiss / Jonas Hagmann -- The politics of photography: reflections on SalvatoreVitale's How To Secure a Country / Roland Bleiker -- Surveillance and the invisible infrastructures of security-building / Philip Di Salvo.

Summary:

"Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the presence and production of national security. When in 2014 Swiss people voted in favor of a federal popular initiative against massive immigration, Salvatore Vitale, an immigrant living in Switzerland, felt the need to research this phenomenon in order to comprehend where the motives for this constant need for security originate and how they became part of Swiss culture"-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

9783037785973 (hbk.)
3037785977 (hbk.)

Subject:

Security (Psychology) Switzerland Pictorial works.
Xenophobia Switzerland Pictorial works.
Fear in art.
Art Themes, motives.
Insécurité Suisse Ouvrages illustrés.
Xénophobie Suisse Ouvrages illustrés.
Peur dans l'art.
Art Thèmes, motifs.
theme.
Emigration and immigration Social aspects
Security (Psychology)
Xenophobia
Switzerland Emigration and immigration Social aspects Pictorial works.
Switzerland

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
Installation works (Art)
Illustrated works

Added entries:

Willumeit, Lars, editor, writer of added commentary.
Hagmann, Jonas, writer of added commentary.
Bleiker, Roland, writer of added commentary.
Di Salvo, Philip, writer of added commentary.
Stiftung für die Photographie (Switzerland), host institution.

Visual study of 21st-century statehood
Visual study of twenty-first-century statehood

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306708
Call No.: BIB 252268
Status: Available