Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life

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Contents: Preface Fear, critical geopolitics and everyday life, Rachel Pain and Susan J. Smith Section 1 State Fears and Popular Fears: From presidential podiums to pop music: everyday discourses of geopolitical danger in Uzbekistan, Nick Megoran 'Growing pains'? Fear, exclusion and citizenship in a disadvantaged UK neighbourhood, Catherine Louise Alexander Fear and the familial in the US war on terror, Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert Me and my monkey: what's hiding in the security state, Cindi Katz. Section 2 Fear of Nature and the Nature of Fear: Pandemic anxiety and global health security, Alan Ingram Nature, fear and rurality, Jo Little. Section 3 Encountering Fear and Otherness: Scaling segregation: racialising fear, Peter E. Hopkins and Susan J. Smith Practising fear: encountering O/other bodies, Michael Haldrup, Lasse Koefoed and Kirsten Simonsen Neither relaxed nor comfortable: the affective regulation of migrant belonging in Australia, Greg Noble and Scott Poynting Youth and the geopolitics of risk after 11 September 2001, Kathrin HA rschelmann. Section 4 Regulating Fear: On strawberry fields and cherry picking: fear and desire in the bordering and immigration politics of the European Union, Henk van Houtum and Roos Pijpers Identity cards and coercion in Palestine, Nadia Abu Zhara Ethno-sectarianism and the construction of fear in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Peter Shirlow. Section 5 Fear, Resistance and Hope: Whose fear is it anyway? Resisting terror fear and fear for children, Rachel Pain Practising hope: learning from social movement strategies in the Philippines, Sarah Wright (Re)negotiations: towards a transformative geopolitics of fear and otherness, Kye Askins Afterword: fear/hope and reconnection Index.