Domesticating Security
Domesticating Security
Gated Communities and Cooperative Apartment Buildings in New York City and Long Island, New York
The impact of the U.S. security concerns is not only seen in political and spatial restrictions on public space or inscribed in militarized borders, but also in the increasing penetration of the private realm of home. This domestication of security concerns through the architecture, urban design and management of private residential communities addresses homeowners’ sense of social and financial insecurity through socioeconomic segregation, controlled physical environments and racist discourses. These securitization practices, the securityscapes that are a result of architectural and social infrastructures and how they work can be uncovered through an ethnographic analysis of housing regimes and the affective, discursive and bodily practices that make up and regulate home life.
Keywords: Gated communities, Coops, Securitization, Securityscape, Fear, Insecurity, Architecture, Housing
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