“Safe to Death”. Around Arjun Appadurai’s book

Abstract

The essays analyzes the concept of security descrived by Arjun Appadurai in the book titled Sicuri da morire. At the beginning of new century, the crisis of the National State has left a great number of fears to the civil population. The violence, which was at the begings of the modern age and that was a protagonist in the process of built of State, now is returning as a ordinary condition of the civil living.