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Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on
the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they
were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about
the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and
images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions,
scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons,
and fears of overpopulation. Making Threats: Biofears and
Environmental Anxieties addresses how such environmental and
biological fears are used to manufacture threats to individual,
national, and global security. Contributors from environmental
studies, political science, international security, biology,
sociology and anthropology 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'.
In these highly original and thought-provoking essays, Making
Threats focuses on five themes: security, scarcity, purity,
circulation and terror. No other book has systematically examined
the proliferation of fear in the context of current world events
and from such a multidisciplinary perspective. It consolidates in
one place cutting edge research and reflection on how the
contemporary landscape of fear shapes and is shaped by
environmental and biological discourses. By uncovering the
linguistic tools that make fear resonate in the public
consciousness, by identifying the interests that create or are
sustained by fears, in short by giving fears histories, Making
Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties engages with some of
the most potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of
the contemporary scene.
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals the dangers of contemporary
population-control tactics, especially for women in developing
countries. It also tells the story of how international women's
health activists fought to reform population control and promoted a
new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
people. While their efforts bore fruit, many obstacles remain.
Today, despite declining birth rates worldwide, overpopulation
alarm is on the rise, and now it is tied to the threats of climate
change and terrorism.
A quiet violence today stalks the villages and shanty towns of the
Third World, the violence of needless hunger. In this book, two
Bengali-speaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village
where they lived for nine months. There, the reader meets some of
the world's poorest people - peasants, sharecroppers and landless
labourers - and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from
their misery. The villagers' poverty is not fortuitous, a result of
divine dispensation or individual failings of character. Rather, it
is the outcome of a long history of exploitation, culminating in a
social order which today benefits a few at the expense of many.
A mysterious suicide in a military prison.a president whose thirst
for alcohol may overwhelm his thirst for power.a White House
advisor who takes matters into his own hands. With the country's
future in the balance, a Supreme Court justice, a young
congressional aide and a grieving mother are swept into a fight for
their ideals-and their lives. As timely as tomorrow's headlines,
Deadly Election is a searing tale of intrigue, courage, and the
lust for power.
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