Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible HazardsTimescapes 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. |
Contents
Nature reconstituted and reconceptualised | 23 |
Its all about money isnt | 61 |
Square pegs into round holes | 103 |
Mediated knowledge | 163 |
Radiated identities | 193 |
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abstract action activity agriculture animals argued associated assumptions basis beef BSE-CJD cattle certainty chaos theory chapter Chernobyl Chernobyl disaster classical economics complex temporalities conceptual concern contamination contemporary context culture decontextualised disaster disease effects environment environmental economics environmental hazards everyday extended externalised farmers farming focus future genetic engineering genetically modified organisms genotechnology global globalised Government growth habits of mind holography hormone-disrupting chemicals human impact implicated indeterminacy industrial inescapable infected interaction invisible issues Joanna Blythman knowledge Liberal Democracies linear linear perspective living long-term means Moreover natura naturans nature Newtonian science nuclear phenomena political pollution potential practices principle problems processes production quantified radiation recognise relation reproduction rhythmicity risk safety scientific scientists scrapie seasonal social socio-environmental soil species symptoms theory time-space distantiated timescape timescape perspective tion Tony Stone traditional transnational understanding Wirkwelt