Be very afraid : the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats / Robert Wuthnow.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 294 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199730873
- 9780199730872
- Emergency management
- Threats
- Fear -- Social aspects
- Terrorism -- Social aspects
- Terrorism -- Psychological aspects
- Epidemics -- Social aspects
- Epidemics -- Psychological aspects
- Global warming -- Social aspects
- Global warming -- Psychological aspects
- Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects
- Nuclear weapons -- Psychological aspects
- Weapons of mass destruction -- Psychological aspects
- Weapons of mass destruction -- Social aspects
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- HV551.2 .W88 2010
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303.485 BAD Bad tidings : communication and catastrophe / | 303.485 COT Global crisis reporting : journalism in a global age / | 303.485 CRA Crash cultures : modernity, mediation, and the material / | 303.485 WUT Be very afraid : the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats / | 303.4850979494 DAV Ecology of fear : Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster / | 303.485099346 WRI Quake : Hawke's Bay, 1931 / | 303.485099346 WRI Quake : Hawke's Bay, 1931 / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Perilous times -- The nuclear-haunted era -- What to mobilize against -- Waging war on terror -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Panics and pandemics -- Environmental catastrophe -- Setting a new agenda -- The call for action -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global warming: each threatens to destroy the planet, or at least to annihilate our species. Freud, Wuthnow notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow argues, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something--anything--even if it's wasteful and time-consuming. It would be one thing if our responses were merely pointless, Wuthnow observes, but they can actually be harmful.--From publisher description.
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