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Title The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security Imaginaries, Discourses and Philosophies that Shaped Modern Europe Gemma Blok, Jan Oosterholt
Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2023

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages) illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Gemma Blok and Jan Oosterholt Section 1: Philosophical conceptualisations of safety Chapter 1: Eddo Evink -- Security, Certainty, Trust. Historical and Contemporary Aspects of the Concept of Safety Chapter 2: Ana Alicia Carmona Aliaga -- Tolerance, a Safety Policy in Pierre Bayle's Thought Chapter 3: Tom Giesbers -- The Shackles of Freedom. The Modern Philosophical Notion of Public Safety Section 2: Security cultures in history Chapter 4: Beatrice de Graaf -- The Invention of Collective Security after 1815 Chapter 5: Vincent Baptist -- Criminal, Cosmopolitan, Commodified. How Rotterdam's Interwar Amusement Street the Schiedamsedijk Became a Safe Mirror Image of Itself Chapter 6: Gemma Blok, Peter-Paul Bänzinger and Lisanne Walma -- Tourists, Dealers or Addicts. Security Practices in Response to Open Drug Scenes in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Zurich, 1960-2000 Section 3: Narratives and imaginaries of safety Chapter 7: Nils Büttner -- The 'Golden Age' Revisited. Images and Notions of Safety in Insecure Times Chapter 8: Frederik Van Dam -- Safety as Nostalgia. Infrastructural Breakdown in Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity (1938) Chapter 9: Roos van Strien -- Brace for Impact. Spatial Responses to Terror in the Cities Belfast and Oslo Section 4: Narratives and imaginaries of unsafety Chapter 10: Sigrid Ruby -- Safe at Home? The Domestic Space in Early Modern Visual Culture Chapter 11: Jan Oosterholt -- The Transfer of Nineteenth-Century Representations of Unsafety. A Dutch Adaptation of Eugène Sue's <cite>Les Mystères de Paris</cite> Chapter 12: Femke Kok -- Feeling Lost in a Modernising World. A Critique on Martha Nussbaum's Emotion Theory through an Analysis of Feelings of Unsafety in Magda Szabó's <cite>Iza's Ballad</cite>
Summary This volume analyses cultural perceptions of safety and security that have shaped modern European societies. The articles present a wide range of topics, from feelings of unsafety generated by early modern fake news to safety issues related to twentieth-century drug use in public space. The volume demonstrates how 'safety' is not just a social or biological condition to pursue but also a historical and cultural construct. In philosophical terms, safety can be interpreted in different ways, referring to security, certainty or trust. What does feeling safe and thinking about a safe society mean to various groups of people over time? The articles in this volume are bound by their joint effort to take a constructionist approach to emotional expressions, artistic representations, literary narratives and political discourses of (un)safety and their impact on modern European society
Analysis History, Art History, and Archaeology
HIS
Contemporary History
CONTEMP HIS
Cultural Studies
CULTURAL
Interdisciplinary Studies
INTERDISC
Modern History
MOD HIS
Safety, cultures of security, cultural studies, study of emotions
Notes "Amsterdam University Press"
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Subject Interdisciplinary studies.
Social and cultural history.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Society and culture: general.
Control, privacy and safety in society.
Social and cultural history.
Form Electronic book
Author Blok, Gemma editor
Oosterholt, Jan editor
ISBN 9048555205
9789048555208