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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.