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Landscapes of Fear
Engelsk Paperback
Landscapes of Fear
Engelsk Paperback

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To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear—written immediately after his classic Space and Place—is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history.


In a series of linked essays that journey broadly across place, time, and cultures, Tuan examines the diverse manifestations and causes of fear in individuals and societies: he describes the horror created by epidemic disease and supernatural visions of witches and ghosts; violence and fear in the country and the city; fears of drought, flood, famine, and disease; and the ways in which authorities devise landscapes of terror to instill fear and subservience in their own populations.


In this groundbreaking work—now with a new preface by the author—Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discover what is universal and what is particular in our inheritance of fear. Tuan emphasizes that human fear is a constant; it causes us to draw what he calls our “circles of safety” and at the same time acts as a foundational impetus behind curiosity, growth, and adventure.


Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780816684595
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0816684596
Udg. Dato:
20 apr 2013
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
215mm
Højde:
141mm
Forlag:
University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato:
20 apr 2013
Forfatter(e):
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