Ebook: Landscapes of fear
Author: Tuan Yi-fu
- Tags: Fear. Landscapes -- Psychological aspects. Landscape -- Psychological aspects. Landscape. Peur. Paysage -- Aspect psychologique. PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
- Year: 1979
- Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
- City: Minneapolis
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
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To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear—written immediately after his classic Space and Place—is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history.
In a series of linked essays that journey broadly across place, time, and cultures, Tuan examines the diverse manifestations and causes of fear in individuals and societies: he describes the horror created by epidemic disease and supernatural visions of witches and ghosts; violence and fear in the country and the city; fears of drought, flood, famine, and disease; and the ways in which authorities devise landscapes of terror to instill fear and subservience in their own populations.
In this groundbreaking work—now with a new preface by the author—Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discover what is universal and what is particular in our inheritance of fear. Tuan emphasizes that human fear is a constant; it causes us to draw what he calls our “circles of safety” and at the same time acts as a foundational impetus behind curiosity, growth, and adventure.