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The Geography and Politics of Fear A One Day Conference 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 discourse= s;  the ways in which "fear" is constructed around and constructs certa= in;  social identities, reflected in experiences of public spaces, priva= te;  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. Contributors: Betsy Stanko- (Royal Holloway)- Discussant John Gold and George Reville (Oxford Brookes University)=96 Exploring Landscapes of Fear: marginality, spectacle and surveillance Rachel Pain (Durham University) =96Youth, age and the representation of fear= Pete Shirlow =96(University of Ulster)-Spaces of Fear and the Perpetuation o= f Ethno-Sectarianism in Belfast Molly Warrington =96 (University of Cambridge) Domestic violence and fear Colin Webster =96 (University of Teeside) Construction of race and fear/ Leslie Moran-(Birkbeck University of London) and Beverley Skeggs (Manchester University) - The gender and spaces of fear Phil Hubbard- (University of Loughborough)- Dealing with difference: excursions into the city at night. Additional details are at http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear or email [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] ------- End of forwarded message ------- **************** Matthew Williams Criminology Research Centre (CRC) School of Social Sciences Cardiff University Glamorgan Building King Edward VII Avenue Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)29 20 876217 http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/frameset_research/frameset_research_mw.htm Web Pages: http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/OCP/ http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/bsc/ http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/frameset_students/introsoc/index.html