Societies Under Threat: A Pluri-Disciplinary Approach

Part 1: AN INDISPENSABLE DEBATE: FROM RISKS TO THREATS.- Chapter 1. Threats: the time factor. Flight, defence, dismay (Henri Atlan).- Chapter 2. Some Social Psychological processes creating threat from risk (Glynis Breakwell).- Chapter 3. The Use and Misuse of the Notion of Threat in the Public Sphere (Denise Jodelet).- Chapter 4. Threats and transcendental damage (Dominique Bourg).- Chapter 5. The collective emotional impact of threatening events (Bernard Rim?).- Part 2: THREATS: GROUPS AND IDENTITIES AT STAKE.- Chapter 6. Terrorisme: a new threat? (Michel Wiewiorka).- Chapter 7. Migrants and refugees as Threats: from the attribution of meaning to social legitimation of exclusion (Jorge Vala & C?cero Pereira).- Chapter 8. Gypsies: What Threat? (Juan A. P?rez & Mariangeles Molpeceres).- Chapter 9. A lasting symbolic threat: the dispute over the name Macedonia in Greece (Nikos Kalampalikis).- Chapter 10. Time in the intimate relationships and the AIDS threat (Th?mis Apostolidis).- Chapter 11. Climate change: one risk, multiple threats. For a better understanding of the public's perceptions of and answers to climate change (Sabine Caillaud, Virginie Bonnot & Silvia Krauth-Gruber).- Part 3: COPING WITH THREATS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE.- Chapter 12. The financial Logos or the eschatology of financial technoscience (Christian Walter).- Chapter 13. Threat and Oblivion: Trying to understand the silencing of the Spanish Flu (1918-19) (Maria Luisa Lima & Jos? Manuel Sobral).- Chapter 14. Threats under control: the historical lesson of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (Jos? Lu?s Cardoso).- Chapter 15. The perception of the threat of climate change and the conditions of political decisions (Laurence Tubiana).- Chapter 16. Unbounded environment, risk society and potentialization of threats: a challenge for social sciences (Lionel Charles & Bernard Kalaora).- Chapter 17. Climate Change in the XXIst Century: A Risk or a Threat? (Filipe Duarte Santos).