Cultural Construction of Safety and Security : Imaginaries, Discourses and Philosophies That Shaped Modern Europe / Gemma Blok, Jan Oosterholt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blok, Gemma, author.

Oosterholt, Jan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

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.

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 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 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 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. 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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ISBN:

9781003705673

OCLC:

1550455004

Publisher Number:

CIPO000302225