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Old 04-04-2016, 05:25 AM   #1
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Lightbulb Free (DRM-free PDF) Sårbarheder [Danish Post-Berlin Wall Global Politics & Terrorism]

Sårbarheder: Globalisering, militarisering og terrorisering fra Murens fald til i dag (Vulnerabilities: Globalization, Militarization, and Terorrism from the fall of the Wall to today) by Mikkel Thorup, the MSO Professor at the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, is his Danish-language academic book about Exactly What It Says In The Title, the Wall in question being that of Berlin in 1989 (and not, like, Pink Floyd or any other as far as I can tell), free courtesy of publisher Aarhus University Press in Denmark.

This is their current Danish-language Free Book of the Month selection for April, and given the thematic resonance with their past few months' Danish-language offerings which were also about the history of and ideas behind terrorism and/or globalization (sometimes both!) throughout the ages, I kind of wonder if they're trying to tell us something.

Currently free, just through the month of April directly @ the university's dedicated promo page (DRM-free PDF available worldwide). More info about the book can be seen on its own regular webcatalogue page.

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Inden for blot et par årtier er Berlin blevet til én by, Sovjetunionen en mølædt museumsgenstand, Kina en ustoppelig supermagt, og Jugoslavien skrives med et eks- foran, mens klima efterfølges af -katastrofe. I samme periode er der begået folkemord i Rwanda, Congo og Sudan, foråret er kommet og måske gået igen i den arabiske verden, himlen over New York er blevet to tårne fattigere, verden en finanskrise rigere, og en sort amerikansk præsident med Hussein som mellemnavn har afsluttet endnu en krig i Irak og er i gang med samme manøvre i Afghanistan.

Verden efter 1989 er kompliceret, globaliseret og forbundet, og åbenhed betragtes som et uundgåeligt livsvilkår for både individer og nationer. Alligevel er forhåbningerne til tiden efter Murens fald om fredelig sameksistens erstattet af forventninger om øget sårbarhed, krig og katastrofe - fjenderne skrives i flertal, og det tidligere så klare trusselsbillede er mudret til af islamistiske bombemænd og højreradikale hjemmeterrorister.

Denne nye følelse af sårbarhed og dens ideologiske forhærdelse sporer Mikkel Thorup gennem periodens sikkerhedspolitiske og militære diskussioner, krige, konflikter og terroraktioner. På den måde afdækker Sårbarheder. Globalisering, militarisering og terrorisering fra Murens fald til i dag både, hvordan vi som samfund er kommet til at se os selv som sårbare, og hvordan vi som demokratier håndterer det 21. århundredes vidt forskellige risici og samtidig forsøger at bevare det, der kæmpes for.

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Old 04-30-2016, 12:50 AM   #2
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Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick the freebie up if you want it.
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The book looks interesting, but I don't speak Danish at the moment
I've downloaded it, who knows what the future will bring
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