1. Pathologizing Resistance and Promoting Anthropophobia: The Violent Extremism Risk Assessment (VERA) as Case Study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgment ix
4. MANUFACTURING PHOBIAS. The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice 1
5. Phobic Constructions: An Introduction 3
6. Part 1. Endless Facades: Rethinking Social Phobias
7. 1. Pathologizing Resistance and Promoting Anthropophobia: The Violent Extremism Risk Assessment (VERA) as Case Study 17
8. 2. Conflicts of Rights: Free Speech, Freedom to Practise a Religion, and the Social Phobia Mighty Machine 27
9. 3. Phobic Constructions: Psychological, Sociological, Criminological Articulations 51
10. Part 2. Bordering on Fear: Phobias, National Identities, Citizenship
11. 4. Constructions of Phobias, Fractured and Stigmatized Selves, and the Ideal Citizen in Iranian School Textbooks 69
12. 5. How to Save … A Nation?: Televisual Fiction Post-9/11 116
13. 6. Preparation for National Revolution or Acceptance of Inevitable Decay? 143
14. 7. Phobia in an Age of Post-Migrant Rights: The Criminalization of Tamil Refugees 175
15. Part 3. Politics by Other Means: Phobias and Political Practice
16. 8. Death Panels on the Prison Planet: The New World Order Conspiracy and the Radicalization of American Politics 209
17. 9. Degradation Ceremonies: Fear Discourses, Phobic Production, and the Military Metaphysic in Canada 242
18. 10. Manufacturing the avaton and the Ghetto: Places of Fear in the Centre of Athens 270
19. Afterword: Opposing Phobias Going Forward 293
20. Contributors 303
21. Index 307