ISBN:
9781000916836
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.094
Keywords:
Crises-Europe-Psychological aspects
;
Anxiety-Europe
;
Social psychology-Europe
;
Europe-Social conditions-21st century
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Fear, Anxiety, and Crisis. Europe and Emotions in the Twenty-First Century -- 2 The Pedagogy of Listening: The Poetics of Crisis in Contemporary Europe -- 3 Nordic (In)securities, Transatlantic Anxieties, and Global Crises: The Inhospitable "Homeland" in Northern European Films -- 4 Virtual Terrorists, Virtual Anxiety: Affect and Technology in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire -- 5 Anxiety in Financial Crisis Cinema: Gendered Alternatives to Patriarchal Neoliberalism in Costa-Gavras's Le Capital (2012) -- 6 Border Anxieties in Brexit Literature: Anthony J. Quinn and the Politics of Crime Fiction -- 7 Securitisation of the Swedish Migration Policy and the Situation for Unaccompanied Children -- 8 The Witness of Others: Refugees, Hope, and Europe -- 9 Eco-Anxiety as a Dimension of European Anxious Experiences -- 10 The Anxieties of Intergenerational Environmental Justice in John Lanchester's The Wall -- 11 In Defence of Fear: COVID-19, Crises and Democracy -- 12 Ageism, Anxiety, and the Crisis of Capitalist Subjectivity -- 13 Framing the "Exceptions to the Rule" in Analyses of Responses to the First wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of European Poles Involving Sweden and Bulgaria -- 14 Conclusion: The Future of (Meta)crisis: From Anxiety and the Culture of Fear to Hope, Solidarity, and the Culture of Resilience? -- Index.
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