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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Gemma Blok and Jan Oosterholt -- Section 1 Philosophical Conceptualisations of Safety -- 1 Security, Certainty, Trust -- Historical and Contemporary Aspects of the Concept of Safety -- Eddo Evink -- 2 Tolerance: A Safety Policy in Pierre Bayle's Thought -- Ana Alicia Carmona Aliaga -- 3 The Shackles of Freedom -- The Modern Philosophical Notion of Public Safety -- Tom Giesbers -- Section 2 Security Cultures in History -- 4 The Invention of Collective Security after 1815 -- Beatrice de Graaf -- 5 Criminal, Cosmopolitan, Commodified |
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How Rotterdam's Interwar Amusement Street, the Schiedamsedijk, Became a Safe Mirror Image of Itself -- Vincent Baptist -- 6 Tourists, Dealers or Addicts -- Security Practices in Response to Open Drug Scenes in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Zurich, 1960-2000 -- Gemma Blok, Peter-Paul Bänzinger and Lisanne Walma -- Section 3 Narratives and Imaginaries of Safety -- 7 The 'Golden Age' Revisited -- Images and Notions of Safety in Insecure Times -- Nils Büttner -- 8 Safety as Nostalgia -- Infrastructural Breakdown in Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity (1938) -- Frederik Van Dam -- 9 Brace for Impact |
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Spatial Responses to Terror in Belfast and Oslo -- Roos van Strien -- Section 4 Narratives and Imaginaries of Unsafety -- 10 Safe at Home? -- The Domestic Space in Early Modern Visual Culture -- Sigrid Ruby -- 11 The Transfer of Nineteenth-Century Representations of Unsafety -- A Dutch Adaptation of Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris -- Jan Oosterholt -- 12 Feeling Lost in a Modernising World -- A Critique on Martha Nussbaum's Emotion Theory through an Analysis of Feelings of Unsafety in Magda Szabó's Iza's Ballad -- Femke Kok -- List of Illustrations |
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Figure 5.1 Professional profile of the Schiedamsedijk (1927). Source of map excerpt and address book data, respectively: Rotterdam City Archives, signature number: 40110-Z10, https://hdl.handle.net/21.12133/96CD44BCC38C4D1293732457E05751CE -- and Rotterdam -- Figure 5.2 Photograph of the Zevenhuissteeg with the Schiedamsedijk in the background, presumably in 1937, by J.F.H. Roovers. Source: Romer, Passagieren op 'De Dijk', 40 / H.A. Voet. |
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Figure 5.3 Photograph of The Black Diamond Bar on the Schiedamsedijk, presumably during the 1930s (exact date and creator unknown). Source: Romer, Passagieren op 'De Dijk', 57 -- Troost, De meisies van de Schiedamsedijk, 65. -- Figure 5.4 Photograph taken from inside the Prinsendam ship replica, overlooking the Schiedamsedijk during the 1935 VVV festivity week. Source: Romer, Het Leuvekwartier van weleer, 100 / Rotterdam City Archives, signature number: 2002-1588, https://hdl.ha |
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Figure 7.1 Peter Paul Rubens, Adoration of the Magi, 1609 (retouched 1628-29), canvas, 355.5 × 493 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado. |
| Summary |
This volume analyses cultural perceptions of safety and security that have shaped modern European societies. The articles present a wide range of topics, from feelings of unsafety generated by early modern fake news to safety issues related to twentieth-century drug use in public space. The volume demonstrates how 'safety' is not just a social or biological condition to pursue but also a historical and cultural construct. In philosophical terms, safety can be interpreted in different ways, referring to security, certainty or trust. What does feeling safe and thinking about a safe society mean to various groups of people over time? The articles in this volume are bound by their joint effort to take a constructionist approach to emotional expressions, artistic representations, literary narratives and political discourses of (un)safety and their impact on modern European society. |
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Security (Psychology) -- Europe.
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Human security -- Europe -- History.
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Public safety -- Europe -- History.
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Insécurité -- Europe.
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Sécurité humaine -- Europe -- Histoire.
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Sécurité publique -- Europe -- Histoire.
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Interdisciplinary studies.
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Social and cultural history.
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HISTORY / Europe / General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Human security. (OCoLC)fst01749591
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Public safety. (OCoLC)fst01745346
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Security (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01110867
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Society and culture: general.
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Control, privacy and safety in society.
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Social and cultural history.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Oosterholt, Jan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blok, Gemma The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,c2024 |
| ISBN |
9789048555208 (electronic bk.) |
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9048555205 (electronic bk.) |
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