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Book SynopsisManufacturing Phobias will be a clarion call for anyone concerned about the disturbing consequences of our culture of fear.
Table of ContentsPhobic Constructions: An Introduction (Hisham Ramadan and Jeff Shantz) Part 1. Endless Facades: Rethinking Social Phobias 1. Pathologizing Resistance and Promoting Anthropophobia: The Violent Extremism Risk Assessment (VERA) as Case Study (Heidi Rimke) 2. Conflicts of Rights: Free Speech, Freedom to Practice a Religion and the Social Phobia Mighty Machine (Hisham Ramadan) 3. Phobic Constructions: Psychological, Sociological, Criminological Articulations (Jeff Shantz and Hisham Ramadan) 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 (Amir Mirfakhraie) 5. How to Save... A Nation?: Televisual Fiction Post-9/11 (Melissa Ames) 6. The Preparation for National Revolution or Accepting the Inevitable Decay? (Dmitry Shlapentokh) 7. Phobia in an Age of Post Migrant Rights: The Regional Response and Criminalization of Tamil Refugees (Michael CK Ma and Davina Bhandar) 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 (Johann Pautz) 9. Degradation Ceremonies: Fear Discourses, Phobic Production, and the Military Metaphysic in Canada (Jeff Shantz) 10. 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)
