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1 online resource (278 pages) illustrations |
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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 |
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History, Art History, and Archaeology |
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Contemporary History |
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CONTEMP HIS |
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Cultural Studies |
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CULTURAL |
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Interdisciplinary Studies |
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INTERDISC |
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Modern History |
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Safety, cultures of security, cultural studies, study of emotions |
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"Amsterdam University Press" |
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Interdisciplinary studies.
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Social and cultural history.
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HISTORY / Europe / General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Society and culture: general.
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Control, privacy and safety in society.
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Social and cultural history.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Blok, Gemma editor
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Oosterholt, Jan editor
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ISBN |
9048555205 |
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9789048555208 |
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