Sites of modernity - places of risk : risk and security in Germany since the 1970s / edited by Martin H. Geyer

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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Exploring the Invention of Risk Debates: Natural Disasters, Insurance, and Risk Management in the Late Twentieth Century -- Chapter 2 - Insuring Catastrophes: Capital Market-Based Forms of Insurance since the 1980s -- Chapter 3 - Places of Risk on the Site of Socialist Modernity: Fighting Industrial Accidents until the GDR Was No More -- Chapter 4 - From "Black Sheriffs" to "Security Partners"? The Emergence of Private Policing in Public Spaces in Germany since the 1970s -- Chapter 5 - Risky Housing: Squatting in London and Hamburg in the 1970s and Early 1980s -- Chapter 6 - Imprisoned Protest: The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968‒85 -- Chapter 7 - "An Inseparable Pair": Freedom and Security in the Schengen Space -- Chapter 8 - It's the Brain, Stupid: Neuroscience, Risk, and Crime -- Conclusion - From Risks to Emergencies? -- Index.