| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Crises -- Europe -- Psychological aspects
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Anxiety -- Europe
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Social psychology -- Europe
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Anxiety.
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Crises -- Psychological aspects.
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Social conditions.
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Social psychology.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Europe.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stier, Jonas
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Gray, Billy
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| ISBN |
9781000916836 |
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1000916839 |
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