Fear [electronic book] : critical geopolitics and everyday life / edited by Rachel Pain and Susan J. Smith.
Contributor(s): Pain, Rachel [editor]
| Smith, Susan [editor].
Material type: 
BookSeries: Re-materialising cultural geography: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016Copyright date: ©2008Description: online resource (253 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, tables.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780754649663; 9781317136170 (e-book).Subject(s): Fear | Social psychologyDDC classification: 152.46 Online resources: E-book
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library | Not for loan |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'Fear' in the twenty-first century has greater currency in western societies than ever before. Through scares ranging from cot death, juvenile crime, internet porn, asylum seekers, dirty bombs and avian flu, we are bombarded with messages about emerging risks. This book takes stock of a range of issues of 'fear' and presents new theoretical arguments and research findings that cover topics as diverse as the war on terror, the immigration crisis, stranger danger, global disease epidemics and sectarian violence. This book charts the association of fear discourses with particular spaces, times, social identities and sets of geopolitical relations. It examines the ways in which fear may be manufactured and manipulated for political purposes, sometimes becoming a tool of repression, and relates fear to political, economic and social marginalization at different scales. Furthermore, it highlights the importance and sometimes unpredictability of everyday lived experiences of fear - the many ways in which people recognize, make sense of and manage fear; the extent of resistance to fear; the relation of fear and hope in everyday life; and the role of emotions in galvanizing political and social action and change.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Fear, critical geopolitics and everyday life
- Section 1 State Fears and Popular Fears
- From presidential podiums to pop music: everyday discourses of geopolitical danger in Uzbekistan
- 'Growing pains'? Fear, exclusion and citizenship in a disadvantaged UK neighbourhood
- Fear and the familial in the US war on terror
- Me and my monkey: what's hiding in the security state
- Section 2 Fear of Nature and the Nature of Fear
- Pandemic anxiety and global health security
- Nature, fear and rurality
- Section 3 Encountering Fear and Otherness
- Scaling segregation: racialising fear
- Practising fear: encountering O/other bodies
- Neither relaxed nor comfortable: the affective regulation of migrant belonging in Australia
- Youth and the geopolitics of risk after 11 September 2001
- Section 4 Regulating Fear
- On strawberry fields and cherry picking: fear and desire in the bordering and immigration politics of the European Union
- Identity cards and coercion in Palestine
- Ethno-sectarianism and the construction of fear in Belfast
- Section 5 Fear, Resistance and Hope
- Whose fear is it anyway? Resisting terror fear and fear for children
- Practising hope: learning from social movement strategies in the Philippines
- (Re)negotiations: towards a transformative geopolitics of fear and otherness
- Afterword: fear/hope and reconnection
- Index