Making Threats
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"Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties addresses how environmental and biological fears are used to manufacture threats to individual, national, and global security. Contributors from a wide variety of perspectives 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." by uncovering the tools that make fear resonate in the public consciousness, by identifying the interests that create or are sustained by fears, Making Threats engages with some of the most potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of contemporary life."--Jacket.
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Environmental healthHealth risk assessmentPsychological aspectsBioterrorismUmweltverschmutzungGesundheitsgefährdung
First published 2005About the author
Betsy Hartmann
1951
Betsy Hartmann writes nonfiction and fiction about important national and global challenges. Her forthcoming book The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness reveals how end-times thinking profoundly influences American foreign policy, environmental politics and the persistence of injustice. Now in its third edition, Betsy’s feminist classic Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control tackles the powerful myth of overpopulation and its negative consequences for women’s reproductive health and rights. She is also the co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and co-editor of the anthology Making Threats: Biofears and Enviro…
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