Abstract This paper seeks to understand the impact upon society of “security theatre”: being the proliferation of security legislation and processes, particularly in the context of airport security screening. Security theatre is a response to the ongoing threat of terrorist attack without warning since September 11, 2001. While as lawyers we have a clear understanding of the laws have been put in place in response to these issues, we often have very little real grasp of how these laws impact society at large. Responses to social change are often first documented in popular literature. This paper seeks to explore the social impact of security theatre through examining bestselling popular literature that was intended as an allegory of these issues. Thus, the approach taken is to use such literature as a sociological text to provide insight into social responses. To that end Mira Grant’s apocalyptic Newsflesh trilogy and interviews with Grant about these topics within the books will be analysed and explored with a view to understanding the social impact of security theatre. My hope that we gain greater insight into the social perception of these issues, and the ability to view them from a different perspective.

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僵尸作为恐怖主义的寓言：通过米拉格兰特的工作了解后 9/11 安全剧院的社会影响和恐怖主义的存在威胁

摘要 本文旨在了解“安全剧场”对社会的影响：安全立法和程序的扩散，特别是在机场安全检查的背景下。安全战区是对自 2001 年 9 月 11 日以来持续不断的恐怖袭击威胁做出的反应。作为律师，我们清楚地了解针对这些问题制定的法律，但我们往往很少真正掌握这些法律如何影响整个社会。对社会变化的反应通常首先记录在通俗文学中。本文旨在通过检查旨在作为这些问题的寓言的畅销流行文学作品来探索安全剧院的社会影响。因此，所采取的方法是将此类文献用作社会学文本，以深入了解社会反应。为此，将分析和探索米拉格兰特的世界末日新闻三部曲和格兰特对书中这些主题的采访，以了解安全剧院的社会影响。我希望我们能够更深入地了解社会对这些问题的看法，以及从不同角度看待问题的能力。