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Manufacturing Phobias : The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice / Hisham Ramadan, Jeff Shantz.

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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 socia...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Corporate Author: University of Toronto. Press
Other Authors: Ramadan, Hisham (Editor), Shantz, Jeff (Editor)
Other title:De Gruyter University Press Pilot.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Fear > Political aspects.
Fear > Social aspects.
Social phobia.
Fear > Political aspects
Fear > Social aspects
Social phobia
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgment
  • MANUFACTURING PHOBIAS. The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice
  • Phobic Constructions: An Introduction / Ramadan, Hisham / Shantz, Jeff
  • Part 1. Endless Facades: Rethinking Social Phobias
  • 1. Pathologizing Resistance and Promoting Anthropophobia: The Violent Extremism Risk Assessment (VERA) as Case Study / Rimke, Heidi
  • 2. Conflicts of Rights: Free Speech, Freedom to Practise a Religion, and the Social Phobia Mighty Machine / Ramadan, Hisham
  • 3. Phobic Constructions: Psychological, Sociological, Criminological Articulations / Shantz, Jeff / Ramadan, Hisham
  • Part 2. Bordering on Fear: Phobias, National Identities, Citizenship
  • 4. Constructions of Phobias, Fractured and Stigmatized Selves, and the Ideal Citizen in Iranian School Textbooks / Mirfakhraie, Amir
  • 5. How to Save ... A Nation?: Televisual Fiction Post-9/11 / Ames, Melissa
  • 6. Preparation for National Revolution or Acceptance of Inevitable Decay? / Shlapentokh, Dmitry
  • 7. Phobia in an Age of Post-Migrant Rights: The Criminalization of Tamil Refugees / Ma, Michael C.K. / Bhandar, Davina
  • Part 3. Politics by Other Means: Phobias and Political Practice
  • 8. Death Panels on the Prison Planet: The New World Order Conspiracy and the Radicalization of American Politics / Pautz, Johann
  • 9. Degradation Ceremonies: Fear Discourses, Phobic Production, and the Military Metaphysic in Canada / Shantz, Jeff
  • 10. Manufacturing the avaton and the Ghetto: Places of Fear in the Centre of Athens / Koutrolikou, Penny
  • Afterword: Opposing Phobias Going Forward / Ramadan, Hisham M. / Shantz, Jeff
  • Contributors
  • Index

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