{"product_id":"making-threats-biofears-and-environmental-anxieties-paperback","title":"Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eJeanne Guillemin\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eHugh Gusterson\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e 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'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these highly original and thought-provoking essays, \u003ci\u003eMaking Threats\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy 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, \u003ci\u003eMaking Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e engages with some of the most potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of the contemporary scene.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBetsy Hartmann\u003c\/b\u003e is the Director of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College. \u003cb\u003eBanu Subramaniam\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and \u003cb\u003eCharles Zerner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.94 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50369661894893,"sku":"9780742549074","price":98.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/qZyZBU-JSS9780742549074.webp?v=1785435319","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/making-threats-biofears-and-environmental-anxieties-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}