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 Making
Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
edited by Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam and Charles
Zerner
Rowman and
Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Lanham, Maryland
2005
Description of
Making Threats:
Making
Threats is designed to
make students, scholars, activists and policymakers think
critically about how environmental and biological fears are
implicated in the construction of threats to local, national
and global security. Writing from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives, the authors contribute to scholarship on
environment and security that engages with some of the more
potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of the
contemporary scene.
Praise for
Making Threats:
The chapters
inform each other in a cumulative way, building a series of
narratives of dangers as they in turn tackle matters of
security, scarcity, purity, circulation, and terror. The book
makes a substantial scholarly contribution that will work well
as a text but is also such a well-crafted analysis of
contemporary anxieties that it deserves to be widely read by
the general public.
- Simon Dalby, author of Environmental Security and
professor of geography and environmental studies, Carleton
University
This
provocative collection of essays makes an important
contribution to our understanding of how fears related to
biological and environmental phenomena are produced and played
out.
- Ken Conca, associate professor of government and politics,
University of Maryland
Readers will
appreciate the painstaking exposition of how narratives,
tropes, images and maps, binaries, and stereotypes have been
assembled to create a terrifying certainty that the sky is
falling…A triumph of empirical discovery.
- Paul Greenough, professor of history, University of Iowa
Making
Threats is a remarkable compilation that makes links and
connections no one else is making. This book offers a
wonderful, though scary, examination of the manipulation of
insider/outsider rhetoric as it plays out in racial,
biological, social and political realms. A must-read for
these anxious times.
- Joni Seager, dean of environmental studies, York University |
