Timescapes of Modernity
The Environment and Invisible Hazards
Seiten
1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-16274-6 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-16274-6 (ISBN)
Introducing a unique 'timescape' perspective the author reexamines environmental problems and their cures and provides the potential for innovative new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.
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.
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.
Barbara Adam
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.3.1998 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 630 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-16274-2 / 0415162742 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-16274-6 / 9780415162746 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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