Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life

by Pain,Rachel

• ISBN13: 9780754649663
• ISBN10: 0754649660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

'Fear' in the twenty-first century has greater currency in western societies than ever before. Through scares about 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' which have come to public and academic attention in recent years, and asks how these relate to a rich body of earlier critical scholarship on fear. The book presents new theoretical arguments and new research findings that cover topics as diverse as the war on terror, the immigration crisis, stranger danger, global disease epidemics and sectarian violence.Previous analysis of fear has taken two largely separate trajectories: fear in everyday life, and political geographies of fear at global and national levels. This book puts forward a conceptual framework which identifies and emphasizes the connections between the two. It 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 marginalisation at different scales. But it also highlights the importance and sometimes unpredictability of everyday lived experiences of fear - the many ways in which people recognise, 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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Fear, critical geopolitics and everyday life

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

Fear of Nature and the Nature of Fear

Pandemic anxiety and global health security

Nature, fear and rurality

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

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

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

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