ISBN:
9780520379152
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9780520294608
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 337 pages
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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23 cm
Edition:
First paperback printing
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Political sociology
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Political geography
;
Geopolitics / Psychological aspects
;
Fear / Political aspects
;
Fear / Social aspects
;
Danger / Political aspects
;
Danger / Social aspects
;
Géopolitique / Aspect psychologique
;
Peur / Aspect politique
;
Peur / Aspect social
;
Danger / Aspect politique
;
Danger / Aspect social
;
Fear / Political aspects
;
Fear / Social aspects
Abstract:
From the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote "danger zones." Andersson takes aim at how Western states and international organizations conduct military, aid, and border interventions in a dangerously myopic fashion, further disconnecting the world's rich and poor. Risk-obsessed powers are helping to remap the world into zones of insecurity and danger, resulting in a vision of chaos crashing into fortified borders. Andersson contends that we must reconnect and snap out of this dangerous spiral, which affects us no matter where we are. Only by developing a new cartography of hope can we move beyond the political geography of fear that haunts us. From back cover
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