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Final reminder: The Geography and Politics of Fear A One Day Workshop at UCL Students’ Union, Bloomsbury, London July 3rd 2001, 9.15am – 5pm Convenors: Pete Shirlow, Rachel Pain and the Conference of Socialist Economists (Capital & Class) (http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear) This workshop is devoted to politicising debates over “the fear of crime”. Emphasis will be on the ways in which discourses of fear are manufactured, through state politics but also civil society and culture, 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, and reflected in experiences of public spaces, private spaces, national and local territories and environments. Emphasis will be placed upon how representations of fear contribute to racism, homophobia, sexism, and sectarianism and contemporary patterns of social exclusion. It will reflect interesting recent work including critiques informed by radical perspectives such as socialist, feminist, anti-racist and queer theory. Confirmed speakers: John R. Gold and George Revill (Oxford Brookes University) “Exploring landscapes of fear: marginality, spectacle and surveillance” Phil Hubbard (Loughborough University) “Dealing with difference: excursions into the city at night” Leslie Moran (Birkbeck University of London) and Beverley Skeggs (Manchester University) “The gender and space of fear” Rachel Pain (University of Durham) “Youth, age and the representation of fear” Pete Shirlow (University of Ulster) “Spaces of fear and the perpetuation of ethno-sectarianism in Belfast” Molly Warrington (University of Cambridge) “Fleeing from fear: the role of women’s refuges” Colin Webster (University of Teesside) “Race, space and fear: imagined geographies of racist violence” For more details and booking forms go to http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear or contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]