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The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Fear, anxiety, and crisis. Europe in the twenty-first century
2. The pedagogy of listening: The poetics of crisis in contemporary Europe
3.Nordic (in)securities, transatlantic anxieties, and global crises. The inhospitable "homeland" in Northern European films
4. Virtual terrorists, virtual anxiety: Affect and technology in Kamila Shamsie's
Home Fire5. Anxiety in financial crisis cinema: Gendered alternatives to patriarchal neoliberalism in Costa-Gavras's
Le capital (2012)
6. Border anxieties in Brexit literature: Anthony J. Quinn and the politics of crime fiction
7. Securitisation of the Swedish migration policy and the situation for unaccompanied children
8. The witness of others: Refugees, hope, and Europe
9. Eco-anxiety as a dimension of European anxious experiences
10. The anxieties of intergenerational environmental justice in John Lanchester's
The Wall11. In defence of fear: COVID-19, crises, and democracy
12. Ageism, anxiety, and the crisis of capitalist subjectivity
13. Framing the "exceptions to the rule" in analyses of responses to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of European poles involving Sweden and Bulgaria
14. Conclusion: The future of (meta)crisis: From anxiety and the culture of fear to hope, solidarity, and the culture of resilience?
About the author
Carmen Zamorano Llena is Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is the author of
Fictions of Migrations in Contemporary Britain and Ireland (2020) and co-editor of the Cultural Identity Studies series, as well as of several collections of essays, including
Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature (2013) and
Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland: Studies in Literature and Culture (2015).
Jonas Stier is Professor of Social Work at Mälardalen University, Sweden. He is co-editor of the Cultural Identity Studies series and an editorial board member of the
Journal of Intercultural Communication. Stier has authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books, including
Cultural Encounters: An Introduction to Intercultural Studies ([Kulturmöten: en introduktion till interkulturella studier] 2019) and
Society and I: A Sociological Approach ([Samhället och jag: en sociologisk ingång] 2021).
Billy Gray is Associate Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. He is the author of
Representations of Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English (2023, forthcoming) and co-editor of the Cultural Identity Studies series and of the collection of essays
Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland: Studies in Literature and Culture (2015).
Summary
The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe.
