Making Threats Biofears and Environmental Anxieties

by Hartmann, Betsy; Subramaniam, Banu; Zerner, Charles; Goodman, Alan; Guillemin, Jeanne; Gusterson, Hugh; Hendrixson, Anne; Lipschutz, Ronnie D.; Lohmann, Larry; Martin, Emily; Matthew, Richard; Orr, Jackie; Passavant, Paul A.; Turcotte, Heather; Watts, Mic

• ISBN13: 9780742549074
• ISBN10: 0742549070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Making Threats is designed to make students, scholars, activists and policymakers think critically about how environmental and biological fears are implicated in the construction of threats to local, national and global security. Writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the authors contribute to scholarship on environment and security that engages with some of the more potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of the contemporary scene. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
1 Introduction: Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties	1	(24)
Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, and Charles Zerner
Part I: Security
2 Duct Tape or Plastic? The Political Economy of Threats and the Production of Fear	25	(22)
Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Heather Turcotte
3 Making Civilian-Soldiers: The Militarization of Inner Space	47	(34)
Jackie Orr
Reflections—Consuming National Security	71	(1)
Paul A. Passavant
Part II: Scarcity
4 Malthusianism and the Terror of Scarcity	81	(28)
Larry Lohmann
Reflections—Scarcity, Modernity, Terror	99	(1)
Michael Watts
Part III: Purity
5 Decoding the Debate on "Frankenfood"	109	(26)
Hugh Gusterson
6 The Aliens Have Landed! Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions	135	(24)
Banu Subramaniam
Reflections—Impure Biology: The Deadly Synergy of Racialization and Geneticization	149	(1)
Alan Goodman
Part IV: Circulation
7 Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger: Africa, Ebola, and AIDS	159	(38)
Charles Zerner
Reflections—Feeling Invasion	187	(1)
Emily Martin
Part V: Terror
8 Inventing Bioterrorism: The Political Construction of Civilian Risk	197	(20)
Jeanne Guillemin
9 Pernicious Peasants and Angry Young Men: The Strategic Demography of Threats	217	(30)
Betsy Hartmann and Anne Hendrixson
Reflections—Bioterrorism and National Security: Peripheral Threats, Core Vulnerabilities	237	(1)
Richard A. Matthew
10 Conclusion: Unraveling Fear	247	(4)
Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, and Charles Zerner
Index	251	(12)
About the Editors and Contributors	263