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La planète des hommes: Réenchanter lerisque
by Cairn.info, Bronner, Gérald
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Quelle mouche a piqué nos contemporains ? Ils ne paraissent regarder vers l'avenir que la peur au ventre, cherchant les premiers signes d'une apocalypse écologique. Ils ont le sentiment d'être menacés par les ondes, la radioactivité, par leur assiette même, devant laquelle ils s…
Quelle mouche a piqué nos contemporains ? Ils ne paraissent regarder vers l'avenir que la peur au ventre, cherchant les premiers signes d'une apocalypse écologique que les films hollywoodiens ne cessent de nous narrer. Ils ont le sentiment d'être menacés par les ondes, la radioa…
"Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established ico…
"From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects in jeopa…
From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects in jeopar…
"The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic; at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. …
When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city's Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. This book offers insight into the clash of Easte…
"Empires of Panic" is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings--from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic …