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Anxiety, Violence and the Social World

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In Chapter 2 we explore contemporary accounts of violence, the social world and ‘anxiety’, broadly defined. Here we set out our narrative for a world enduring times of terror, disaster and anxiety. In order to lay a path from anxiety to the lived experience of the Global Financial Crisis that we explore in the chapters to come, we analyse the ways in which our fears and anxieties are mobilised through political rhetoric, terrorism, social networking and social conditions impacted by advanced capitalism and global free-market trade. It is, perhaps, a time when our imaginations have run amok, and a time when we feel little control over world events, the institutions we belong to, or even our private daily lives.

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Howie, L., Campbell, P. (2017). Anxiety, Violence and the Social World. In: Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51629-9_2

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