Target Markets: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism In The Mall

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This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture – the most mainstream and the most extreme – meet on common ground. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 1. Introduction: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall......Page 10 Terrorism at the Mall......Page 13 The Politics of Shopping......Page 17 The Ideological Complexities of Terrorism and Capitalism......Page 22 2. Developing the Shopping Mall......Page 28 The Making of a Middle Class......Page 29 The Globalization of Consumption and Contestation......Page 31 Standardization of Consumption......Page 33 Neoliberalism and the City......Page 35 Make Way for the Mall......Page 37 Transnational Networks of Capitalism, Terrorism, and Poverty......Page 40 3. Designing the Shopping Mall......Page 46 A Brief History of the Shopping Mall......Page 48 Exhibitions and Fairs......Page 49 Arcades......Page 50 Department Stores......Page 52 The Shopping Center......Page 56 The Contemporary Shopping Mall......Page 58 Architectonics of Entrapment......Page 62 Atmospherics of Enchantment......Page 66 The Spectacle of Consumption: A Carnival of Contested Identities......Page 70 4. Securing the Shopping Mall......Page 76 The Architecture of Security......Page 80 The Panopticon of Shopping: Discipline and Purchase......Page 82 Marketing Violence......Page 88 Surveillance for Terrorism......Page 90 Shaping Employee Behavior......Page 91 5. Spectacles of the Shopping Mall......Page 96 Digital Media and the Globalization of Terror......Page 99 Social Media and Personal Narratives......Page 103 Commodification of Terror and Media Productions......Page 107 6. Conclusion: Specters of the Shopping Mall......Page 116 Privatizing Public Space......Page 118 Social Contract vs. Commercial Contract......Page 120 Escape from the Mall......Page 122 Chimeras of Consumption......Page 126 Endnotes......Page 130 Bibliography......Page 174