Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk

Martin H. Geyer has been Professor for Modern History at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich since 1997.His research interests and publications deal with issues of social policies, political scandals, the history of capitalism and political and social theories in the 1970s and 1980s. His recent publications include Kapitalismus und politische Moral in der Zwischenkreigszeit Oder: Wer war Julius Barmat? (Hamburg 2018); and his is currently working on a research project which is entitled The State of Emergency in the 20th Century: What We Can Learn Today from German History of the Interwar Period.

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Introduction

Martin H. Geyer



Chapter 1. Exploring the Invention of Risk Debates: Natural Disasters, Insuranceand Risk Management in the Late TwentiethCentury

Nicolai Hannig



Chapter 2. Insuring Catastrophes: Capital Market-Based Forms of Insurance since the 1980s

Martin Lengwiler



Chapter 3. Places of Risk on the Site of Socialist Modernity: Fighting Industrial Accidents until the GDR Was No More

Thomas Lindenberger



Chapter 4. From “Black Sheriffs” to “Security Partners”? The Emergence of Private Policing in Public Spaces in Germany since the 1970s

Marcus Böick



Chapter 5. Risky Housing: Squatting in London and Hamburg in the 1970s and Early 1980s

Christine G. Krüger



Chapter 6. Imprisoned Protest: The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968—1985

Maximilian Buschmann



Chapter 7. “An Inseparable Pair”: Freedom and Security in the Schengen Space

Isaac Stanley-Becker



Chapter 8. It’s the Brain, Stupid: Neuroscience, Risk, and Crime

Peter Becker



Conclusion: From Risks to Emergencies?

Martin H. Geyer