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Fear : Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (275 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317136170
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.17
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, Plates and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life -- SECTION 1: STATE FEARS AND POPULAR FEARS -- 2 From Presidential Podiums to Pop Music: Everyday Discourses of Geopolitical Danger in Uzbekistan -- 3 'Growing Pains'? Fear, Exclusion and Citizenship in a Disadvantaged UK Neighbourhood -- 4 Fear and the Familial in the US War on Terror -- 5 Me and My Monkey: What's Hiding in the Security State -- SECTION 2: FEAR OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF FEAR -- 6 Pandemic Anxiety and Global Health Security -- 7 Nature, Fear and Rurality -- SECTION 3: ENCOUNTERING FEAR AND OTHERNESS -- 8 Scaling Segregation -- Racialising Fear -- 9 Practising Fear: Encountering O/other Bodies -- 10 Neither Relaxed nor Comfortable: The Affective Regulation of Migrant Belonging in Australia -- 11 Youth and the Geopolitics of Risk after 11 September 2001 -- SECTION 4: REGULATING FEAR -- 12 On Strawberry Fields and Cherry Picking: Fear and Desire in the Bordering and Immigration Politics of the European Union -- 13 Identity Cards and Coercion in Palestine -- 14 Ethno-sectarianism and the Construction of Fear in Belfast, Northern Ireland -- SECTION 5: FEAR, RESISTANCE AND HOPE -- 15 Whose Fear Is It Anyway? Resisting Terror Fear and Fear for Children -- 16 Practising Hope: Learning from Social Movement Strategies in the Philippines -- 17 (Re)negotiations: Towards a Transformative Geopolitics of Fear and Otherness -- Afterword: Fear/Hope and Reconnection -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Summary: 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. Through new theories and new research findings, this book builds together a coherent argument, linking political events taking place at an international scale to ordinary people's experiences of risk and fear in their everyday lives.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, Plates and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life -- SECTION 1: STATE FEARS AND POPULAR FEARS -- 2 From Presidential Podiums to Pop Music: Everyday Discourses of Geopolitical Danger in Uzbekistan -- 3 'Growing Pains'? Fear, Exclusion and Citizenship in a Disadvantaged UK Neighbourhood -- 4 Fear and the Familial in the US War on Terror -- 5 Me and My Monkey: What's Hiding in the Security State -- SECTION 2: FEAR OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF FEAR -- 6 Pandemic Anxiety and Global Health Security -- 7 Nature, Fear and Rurality -- SECTION 3: ENCOUNTERING FEAR AND OTHERNESS -- 8 Scaling Segregation -- Racialising Fear -- 9 Practising Fear: Encountering O/other Bodies -- 10 Neither Relaxed nor Comfortable: The Affective Regulation of Migrant Belonging in Australia -- 11 Youth and the Geopolitics of Risk after 11 September 2001 -- SECTION 4: REGULATING FEAR -- 12 On Strawberry Fields and Cherry Picking: Fear and Desire in the Bordering and Immigration Politics of the European Union -- 13 Identity Cards and Coercion in Palestine -- 14 Ethno-sectarianism and the Construction of Fear in Belfast, Northern Ireland -- SECTION 5: FEAR, RESISTANCE AND HOPE -- 15 Whose Fear Is It Anyway? Resisting Terror Fear and Fear for Children -- 16 Practising Hope: Learning from Social Movement Strategies in the Philippines -- 17 (Re)negotiations: Towards a Transformative Geopolitics of Fear and Otherness -- Afterword: Fear/Hope and Reconnection -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

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. Through new theories and new research findings, this book builds together a coherent argument, linking political events taking place at an international scale to ordinary people's experiences of risk and fear in their everyday lives.

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