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1. Environmental Risks and the Media

   Edited by Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan, Cynthia Carter

   Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly...

   Published November 10th 1999 by Routledge
2. Timescapes of Modernity

   The Environment and Invisible Hazards

   By Barbara Adam

   Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the...

   Published March 4th 1998 by Routledge
3. Theorizing Culture: Critique

   By Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan

   Published August 30th 1995 by Routledge
4. Theorizing Culture

   An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism

   Edited by Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan

   This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "...

   Published August 30th 1995 by Routledge