The Geography and Politics of Fear
(http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear)
A One Day Workshop at UCL Students’ Union, Bloomsbury, London
July 3rd 2001, 9.30am – 5pm
Convenors: Pete Shirlow, Rachel Pain and the Conference of Socialist
Economists (Capital & Class)
Emphasis, within this workshop, will be placed upon the ways in which
discourses of fear are manufactured, through state politics, civil society
and cultural belonging, with the effect of reflecting and reinforcing the
exercise of power. Key themes include:
 the definition and utilisation of “fear” within hegemonic discourses;
 the ways in which “fear” is constructed around and constructs certain
social identities, reflected in experiences of public spaces, private
spaces, national and local territories and environments;
 representations of fear in relation to racism, homophobia, sexism, ethno-
sectarianism and contemporary patterns of social exclusion.
The workshop is intended to reflect interesting recent work, which has a
more strongly political orientation and implication. It will include
critiques informed by radical perspectives such as socialist, feminist,
anti-racist and queer theory. Additional details are at
http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear/
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