Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental AnxietiesBetsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, Charles Zerner Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - Всего страниц: 266 Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears of overpopulation. Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties addresses how such environmental and biological fears are used to manufacture threats to individual, national, and global security. Contributors from environmental studies, political science, international security, biology, sociology and anthropology discuss what they share in common: the view that fears should be critically examined to avoid unnecessary alarm and scapegoating of people and nations as the 'enemy Other'. In these highly original and thought-provoking essays, Making Threats focuses on five themes: security, scarcity, purity, circulation and terror. No other book has systematically examined the proliferation of fear in the context of current world events and from such a multidisciplinary perspective. It consolidates in one place cutting edge research and reflection on how the contemporary landscape of fear shapes and is shaped by environmental and biological discourses. By uncovering the linguistic tools that make fear resonate in the public consciousness, by identifying the interests that create or are sustained by fears, in short by giving fears histories, Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties engages with some of the most potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of the contemporary scene. |
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Introduction Making Threats Biofears and Environmental Anxieties | 1 |
Security | 23 |
Duct Tape or Plastic? The Political Economy of Threats and the Production of Fear | 25 |
Making CivilianSoldiers The Militarization of Inner Space | 47 |
Reflections Consuming National Security | 71 |
Scarcity | 79 |
Malthusianism and the Terror of Scarcity | 81 |
Reflections Scarcity Modernity Terror | 99 |
Circulation | 157 |
Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger Africa Ebola and AIDS | 159 |
Feeling Invasion | 187 |
Terror | 195 |
Inventing Bioterrorism The Political Construction of Civilian Risk | 197 |
Pernicious Peasants and Angry Young Men The Strategic Demography of Threats | 217 |
Peripheral Threats Core Vulnerabilities | 237 |
Conclusion Unraveling Fear | 247 |
Purity | 107 |
Decoding the Debate on Frankenfood | 109 |
The Aliens Have Landed Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions | 135 |
The Deadly Synergy of Racialization and Geneticization | 149 |
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About the Editors and Contributors | 263 |
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