Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk
Risk and Security in Germany since the 1970s
- 258 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
"Places of risk" and "sites of modernity" refer not merely to physical locations, but also objects and institutions that stand at the center of contemporary debates on security and risk. These are social and political domains where energy and infrastructure are produced, where domestic security is pursued and maintained, and where citizens encounter the state in its punitive or monitory roles. Taking a wide view of the period from the 1970s to today, this volume brings together innovative, interdisciplinary case studies of sites of modernity that promise to provide security and safety, yet at the same time are deemed responsible for creating new risks. With a particular contemporary interest in the technocratic changes of security and risk control the contributors to Sites of Modernity — Places of Risk position the 1970s as a turning point in the path from industrial to post-industrial modernity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Exploring the Invention of Risk Debates: Natural Disasters, Insurance, and Risk Management in the Late Twentieth Century
- 2. Insuring Catastrophes: Capital Market-Based Forms of Insurance since the 1980s
- 3. Places of Risk on the Site of Socialist Modernity: Fighting Industrial Accidents until the GDR Was No More
- 4. From “Black Sheriffs” to “Security Partners”? The Emergence of Private Policing in Public Spaces in Germany since the 1970s
- 5. Risky Housing: Squatting in London and Hamburg in the 1970s and Early 1980s
- 6. Imprisoned Protest: The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968–85
- 7. “An Inseparable Pair”: Freedom and Security in the Schengen Space
- 8. It’s the Brain, Stupid: Neuroscience, Risk, and Crime
- Conclusion. From Risks to Emergencies?
- Index