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.

“This is a superb collection of essays, coming at an extremely opportune moment, when the global Covid pandemic, the climate emergency, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and political uncertainties in the West are forcing us to reassess the historical roots of current perspectives on risk and risk-taking.” • Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University

• List of TablesIntroductionMartin H. GeyerChapter 1. Exploring the Invention of Risk Debates: Natural Disasters, Insuranceand Risk Management in the Late TwentiethCenturyNicolai HannigChapter 2. Insuring Catastrophes: Capital Market-Based Forms of Insurance since the 1980sMartin LengwilerChapter 3. Places of Risk on the Site of Socialist Modernity: Fighting Industrial Accidents until the GDR Was No MoreThomas LindenbergerChapter 4. From “Black Sheriffs” to “Security Partners”? The Emergence of Private Policing in Public Spaces in Germany since the 1970sMarcus BöickChapter 5. Risky Housing: Squatting in London and Hamburg in the 1970s and Early 1980sChristine G. KrügerChapter 6. Imprisoned Protest: The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968‒1985Maximilian BuschmannChapter 7. “An Inseparable Pair”: Freedom and Security in the Schengen SpaceIsaac Stanley-BeckerChapter 8. It’s the Brain, Stupid: Neuroscience, Risk, and CrimePeter BeckerConclusion: From Risks to Emergencies?Martin H. Geyer

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.

“This is a superb collection of essays, coming at an extremely opportune moment, when the global Covid pandemic, the climate emergency, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and political uncertainties in the West are forcing us to reassess the historical roots of current perspectives on risk and risk-taking.” • Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University

• List of TablesIntroductionMartin H. GeyerChapter 1. Exploring the Invention of Risk Debates: Natural Disasters, Insuranceand Risk Management in the Late TwentiethCenturyNicolai HannigChapter 2. Insuring Catastrophes: Capital Market-Based Forms of Insurance since the 1980sMartin LengwilerChapter 3. Places of Risk on the Site of Socialist Modernity: Fighting Industrial Accidents until the GDR Was No MoreThomas LindenbergerChapter 4. From “Black Sheriffs” to “Security Partners”? The Emergence of Private Policing in Public Spaces in Germany since the 1970sMarcus BöickChapter 5. Risky Housing: Squatting in London and Hamburg in the 1970s and Early 1980sChristine G. KrügerChapter 6. Imprisoned Protest: The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968‒1985Maximilian BuschmannChapter 7. “An Inseparable Pair”: Freedom and Security in the Schengen SpaceIsaac Stanley-BeckerChapter 8. It’s the Brain, Stupid: Neuroscience, Risk, and CrimePeter BeckerConclusion: From Risks to Emergencies?Martin H. Geyer

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.

“This is a superb collection of essays, coming at an extremely opportune moment, when the global Covid pandemic, the climate emergency, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and political uncertainties in the West are forcing us to reassess the historical roots of current perspectives on risk and risk-taking.” • Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University

• List of TablesIntroductionMartin H. GeyerChapter 1. Exploring the Invention of Risk Debates: Natural Disasters, Insuranceand Risk Management in the Late TwentiethCenturyNicolai HannigChapter 2. Insuring Catastrophes: Capital Market-Based Forms of Insurance since the 1980sMartin LengwilerChapter 3. Places of Risk on the Site of Socialist Modernity: Fighting Industrial Accidents until the GDR Was No MoreThomas LindenbergerChapter 4. From “Black Sheriffs” to “Security Partners”? The Emergence of Private Policing in Public Spaces in Germany since the 1970sMarcus BöickChapter 5. Risky Housing: Squatting in London and Hamburg in the 1970s and Early 1980sChristine G. KrügerChapter 6. Imprisoned Protest: The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968‒1985Maximilian BuschmannChapter 7. “An Inseparable Pair”: Freedom and Security in the Schengen SpaceIsaac Stanley-BeckerChapter 8. It’s the Brain, Stupid: Neuroscience, Risk, and CrimePeter BeckerConclusion: From Risks to Emergencies?Martin H. Geyer