| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77204 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | How does “safety†get constructed in American culture after World War II? This dissertation focuses on the ways that architectural spaces—particularly domestic and laboratory space—are configured as “safe†spaces. Through case studies of high-rises, suburban houses, underground bunkers, and industrial cleanrooms, it seeks to uncover how the built environment produces and is produced by the concept of “safety.†This case study model incorporates critical and sociological theory, historical documents, popular literature, and film to investigate “safety†as the basis for projects that sustain racialized and gendered forms of power, as well as participating in a peculiarly American “bunker mentality,†or the politics of fortification, spatial control and defense, and apocalyptic narratives. The figure of the zombie as a destabilizing and deterritorializing force is central to this study since so many of these architectural cases are opposed—in literary but also in governmental policies—to zombies. Ultimately, this study imbricates architecture and story-telling, the material and the imaginative, to critically evaluate how the story of “safety†is told and then mobilized to political ends. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:52:11Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Diedrich, Lisa | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Nganang, Patrice | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Kaplan, Elizabeth Ann | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Friedner, Michele. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Clinton, Gregory | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:52:11Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:52:11Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 335 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77204 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2017-05-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | Comparative literature | |
| dcterms.subject | Architecture, Bunkers, Preppers, Safety | |
| dcterms.title | The Architecture of Safety: Bunker Mentalities and the Construction of Safe Space in America | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
