Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible HazardsPsychology Press, 1998 - 247 sidor 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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... agriculture , food , consumption , the treatment of water and soil , the changing pace of life , the economic perspective on the environment , the rhythmicities of nature and cities . Beyond this emphasis on praxis the unification of ...
... agricultural practices , radiation and the BSE crisis depends fundamentally on reference to a ' reality ' outside the constructivity of repre- sentation . There is an appreciation , in other words , that acknowledgement of the ...
... agricultural practices . And , finally , it is crucially involved in approaches to nature , sustainable development and the construction of socio - environmental futures . Together , these three aspects of industrial time - machine ...
... agricultural practice and food production ; ' green ' technology , scientific innovation and media coverage ; as well as ... agriculture . As countryside and meadows , mountains and forests , wild animals and birds , this vision refers ...
... agricultural production . Industrial agriculture with its dependence on sci- ence , technology and global economics , and its allied emphasis on the times of science , machines and economic relations , is a pertinent case in point . The ...
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Nature reconstituted and reconceptualised | 23 |
Its all about money isnt it? Time all things green and profitable and moonlighting for the environment | 61 |
The eye of time on the industrial way of life | 101 |
Square pegs into round holes Democracy and the timescapes of environmental politics | 103 |
Industrial food for thought For everything there is a season and a place | 127 |
Mediated knowledge Of timelags and amnesia reporting on BSE | 163 |
Radiated identities Invisibility latency symptoms the case of Chernobyl | 193 |
Genies on the loose what now Aladdin? | 211 |
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Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards Barbara Adam Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1998 |
Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards Barbara Adam Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards Barbara Adam Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
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