Panic / / Keith Tester
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| Autore: |
Tester Keith <1960-, >
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| Titolo: |
Panic / / Keith Tester
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302/.17 |
| Soggetto topico: | Panic - Social aspects |
| Risk perception - Social aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series editor's foreword; Introduction: what is panic?; 1 Panic and risk; 2 Panic and morality; 3 Panic and trust; Conclusion; Further reading, viewing and listening; Notes; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen?This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop an original analysis of panic in contemporary social life. Bringing together academic literature from a range of disciplines, films, novels and current affairs, it encourages thought about why and how we panic - both individually and collectively. Keith Tester explores how cataclysmic events |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Panic |
| ISBN: | 1-136-22146-8 |
| 1-136-22147-6 | |
| 0-203-09717-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821927903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Shortcuts (Routledge (Firm))