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Manufacturing phobias : the political production of fear in theory and practice /

"Fear is a powerful emotion and a formidable spur to action, a source of worry and--when it is manipulated--a source of injustice. Manufacturing Phobias demonstrates how economic and political elites mobilize fears of terrorism, crime, migration, invasion, and infection to twist political and s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Ramadan, Hisham M (Autor, Editor ), Shantz, Jeff (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pathologizing resistance and promoting anthropophobia : the Violent extremism risk assessment (VERA) as case study / Heidi Rimke
  • Conflicts of rights : free speech, freedom to practice a religion and the social phobia mighty machine / Hisham Ramadan
  • Phobic constructions : psychological, sociological, criminological articulations / Jeff Shantz and Hisham Ramadan
  • Constructions of phobias, fractured and stigmatized selves, and the ideal citizen in Iranian school textbooks / Amir Mirfakhraie
  • How to save ... a nation? : televisual fiction post-9/11 / Melissa Ames
  • The preparation for national revolution or accepting the inevitable decay? / Dmitry Shlapentokh
  • Phobia in an age of post migrant rights : the criminalization of Tamil refugees / Michael CK Ma and Davina Bhandar
  • Death panels on the prison planet : the new world order conspiracy and the radicalization of American politics / Johann Pautz
  • Degradation ceremonies : fear discourses, phobic production, and the military metaphysic in Canada / Jeff Shantz
  • Manufacturing the avaton and the ghetto : places of fear in the centre of Athens / Penny (Panagiota) Koutrolikou
  • Afterword : Opposing phobias going forward / Hisham M. Ramadan and Jeff Shantz.