Barbara Adam

Timescapes of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

The Environment and Invisible Hazards

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Produktbeschreibung

Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic growth; large-scale production of food; the speed of transport and communication; the 24 hour society and even democratic politics are among the invisible hazards we face. With this unique 'timescape' perspective the author dislodges assumptions about environmental change, enables a rethinking of environmental problems and provides the potential for new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134715374
• Artikelnr.: 42718560

Autorenporträt

Barbara Adam

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I. Habits of the mind: environmental timescapes conceptualised
1. Nature re/constituted and re/conceptualised
2. It's all about money
isn't it?
PART II. The eye of time on the industrial way of life
3. Square pegs into round holes
4. Industrial food for thought
5. Mediated knowledge
6. Radiated identities
7. Genies on the loose: what now Aladdin?
References
Index