Societies Under Threat

Chapter 1 Introduction—Threats: An Indispensable Debate

Chapter 2 Uses and Misuses of Threats in the Public Sphere

Chapter 3 Unbounded Environment, Risk Society, and Potentialization of Threats: A Challenge for Social Sciences

Chapter 4 Transcendental Damage Versus Global Risks

Chapter 5 Modalities of Perceiving Threats: The Time Factor

Chapter 6 In the Age of Societal Uncertainty, the Era of Threat

Chapter 7 From the “Classic” Terrorism of the 1970s to Contemporary “Global” Terrorism

Chapter 8 Climate Change in Sociocultural Contexts: One Risk, Multiple Threats

Chapter 9 A Lasting Symbolic National Threat: The Dispute Over the Name Macedonia

Chapter 10 Gypsies: What Threat? Threat and Purity in Majority and Minority Relationships

Chapter 11 Immigrants and Refugees: From Social Disaffection to Perceived Threat

Chapter 12 Climate Change in the XXIst and Following Centuries: A Risk or a Threat?

Chapter 13 Climate Change: Anticipated Risk or Heralded Catastrophe? Questions from a Thwarted Public Enquiry

Chapter 14 Financial Black Swans: Unpredictable Threat or Descriptive Illusion?

Chapter 15 Threat and Oblivion: Interpreting the Silence Over the Spanish Flu (1918–19)

Chapter 16 Collective Responses to Collective Traumas: Synchronization and Collective Resilience

Chapter 17 Conclusion—Final Contributions to a Research Agenda on Social Threats