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This special issue focuses on examining fear (particularly fear of
crime) from a deeper political and geographical perspective
emphasising socio-political power relations, in contrast to the
individualistic or behaviourist analysis often presented.
Fear is used to re-enforce; political power, political, social and
geographical marginalisation, dispossession and mistrust and a
heightened sense of the 'other'. This can be between nations, races,
class, sexuality etc. Those most demonised are sometimes those most
in fear, and most threatened. The association between fear and place
can be used to control the spaces of others e.g. via surveillance or
harassment on scales from the body, through the home to the region or
the global elements of migration.
Responses to fear can either harm resistance, such as reactionary,
hysterical campaigns, or help it, such as community protests about
racial attacks.
Critiques are informed by radical perspectives including socialist,
feminist, anti-racist and queer theory.
CONTENTS
*The Geographies and Politics of Fear: Peter Shirlow and Rachel Pain
*Exploring Landscapes of Fear: Marginality, Spectacle and
Surveillance: John Gold and George Revoill
*Fear and Loathing and the multiplex: Everyday Anxiety in the
Post-Industrial City: Phill Hubbard
*Race, Space and Fear: Imagined Geographies of racism, crime,
violence and disorder in Northern England: Colin Webster.
*Ethno-sectarianism and the reproduction of fear in Belfast: Peter Shirlow
*Fleeing from Fear: The Changing Role of Refuges in meeting the needs
of Women leaving violent partners: Molly Warrington.
*Youth, Age and the Representation of Fear: Rachel Pain.
*The Formation of Fear in Gay Space: The 'Straights Story'. Leslie
Moran, Beverley Skeggs, Pault Tyrer and Karen Corteen.
*Book Reviews and a 'Behind the News' section
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Anna Melamed
CSE/Capital & Class Business Manager
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(020) 7607 9615, www.cseweb.org.uk
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