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Seems like this is related to, if not the same as, "forgetting." Jennifer Cole's book Forget Colonialism: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar does a nice job of conceptualizing one such phenomena in terms that I think you would find very friendly to your way of thinking. -greg On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > I am considering doing some work with an historian who has written the > history of an asbestos plant and its community. Does anyone know of any work > done, preferably in the CHAT tradition, on the opposite of a moral panic, > what we could call, I suppose, "moral denial"? There is lot about management > cover-up, even stuff about panic over asbestos, medical evidence, and > "living with asbestos," but nothing about how a whole comunity can keep on > working with asbestos when the lethal nature of the material was already > public knowledge, until half the town had died of or contracted asbestosis. > We have lots of ideas, but like to know if anyone else has looked at this. > > Any hints? > Andy > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Joint Editor MCA: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/18/1 > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857 > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca -- Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D. Sanford I. Berman Post-Doctoral Scholar Department of Communication University of California, San Diego __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca