The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security

Introduction, Gemma Blok and Jan Oosterholt, Section 1: Philosophical conceptualisations of safety, Chapter 1: Eddo Evink - Security, Certainty, Trust. Historical and Contemporary Aspects of the Concept of Safety, Chapter 2: Ana Alicia Carmona Aliaga - Tolerance, a Safety Policy in Pierre Bayle's Thought, Chapter 3: Tom Giesbers - The Shackles of Freedom. The Modern Philosophical Notion of Public Safety, Section 2: Security cultures in history, Chapter 4: Beatrice de Graaf - The Invention of Collective Security after 1815, Chapter 5: Vincent Baptist - Criminal, Cosmopolitan, Commodified. How Rotterdam's Interwar Amusement Street the Schiedamsedijk Became a Safe Mirror Image of Itself, Chapter 6: Gemma Blok, Peter-Paul Baenzinger and Lisanne Walma - Tourists, Dealers or Addicts. Security Practices in Response to Open Drug Scenes in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Zurich, 1960-2000, Section 3: Narratives and imaginaries of safety, Chapter 7: Nils Buettner - The 'Golden Age' Revisited. Images and Notions of Safety in Insecure Times, Chapter 8: Frederik Van Dam - Safety as Nostalgia. Infrastructural Breakdown in Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity (1938), Chapter 9: Roos van Strien - Brace for Impact. Spatial Responses to Terror in the Cities Belfast and Oslo, Section 4: Narratives and imaginaries of unsafety, Chapter 10: Sigrid Ruby - Safe at Home? The Domestic Space in Early Modern Visual Culture, Chapter 11: Jan Oosterholt - The Transfer of Nineteenth-Century Representations of Unsafety. A Dutch Adaptation of Eugene Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris, Chapter 12: Femke Kok - Feeling Lost in a Modernising World. A Critique on Martha Nussbaum's Emotion Theory through an Analysis of Feelings of Unsafety in Magda Szabo's Iza's Ballad.