Crisis and terror in the age of anxiety : 9/11, the Global Financial Crisis and ISIS /: 9/11, the Global Financial Crisis and ISIS. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Luke Howie, Perri Campbell.
• Authors: Howie, Luke; Campbell, Perri
• Contents: Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Imagining a Future of Crisis, Terror and Anxiety; Our Anxious World; The Burden of the Desire for Financial Security; Precariousness, Precarity and Vulnerability; Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop ... ; The Dangers of Living in a Bubble; 2 Anxiety, Violence and the Social World; An Anxious Society; Social Networking Anxieties; The Trump Phenomenon in an Age of Neoliberalism/Neoconservativism; Anxiety in Neoliberalism and the Emergence of the Tea Party; Conclusions: Anxiety in a Neoliberal Age. 3 Precarious Futures: Young People and the Global Financial CrisisThe Anxiety in the Middle; How did the Financial Crisis Affect your Plans for the Future?; Preparing for Panic!; Resilience, Risk and Young People After the GFC; Conclusion: The GFC and Hope; 4 Guerrilla Selfhood: Imagining Entrepreneurial Futures; Introduction: The Entrepreneurial Imagination; From the Self as Enterprise to Guerrilla Selfhood; The Guerrilla Self and Post-GFC Precarity; Clifton's GFC; Robert's GFC; Isabella's GFC; Conclusions: The Entrepreneurial Future ... Dreaming Dangerously. 5 Responsiveness and Re-imagining the Future with Occupy and Black Lives MatterFighting for the Future, Fighting for Community; Occupy the Future; Black Lives (and White Allies) Matter; Living with Hope: Decolonising Hope; Kim; Nira; Sue; Harris; Conclusions ... Where Anxiety Meets Hope; 6 The Global Financial Crisis in Pop-Culture; Trendy Poverty in Williamsburg; Tumblrs and 'Broke Girls' -- Representations of Young People in Economic Disadvantage; Occupying and the Coming Revolution: The Hunger Games and Youthful Imagining; Katniss Everdeen and the Right Kind of Eyes; The Hanging Tree. The MockingjayPrecariousness: Imagined and Unimaginable Futures; How Generation K Imagines the Future; Do ... Something; Conclusions: Social Justice as a Currency; 7 Iraqi Women's Stories of Anxiety and Unrest from the Blogosphere; Young Women and the Cost of War; Women in Iraq: Invasion, Days of Rage and the Emergence of ISIS; Digital Selves and Blog Therapy: 'Take a Valium or Start a Blog'; 'I Want to Escape': War, Weblogs, PTSD and Valium; Conclusions; 8 Security Guards and Counter-terrorism: Gaps in Terrorism Prevention; Terrorism and Industry; Terrorism, Human Behaviour and Security Thinking. The Counter-Terrorism Role of Security GuardsImagining Security: Guards in Popular Culture; Conclusion: Who is Responsible for our Safety?; 9 The Politics of Anxiety; Imagine Their Presence: Living in the End Times; The Most Casual Item in the Newspaper Grabs Your Attention; Alertness that Hovers Just This Side of Alarm; Conclusion: The Rules of Political Anxiety; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 361.1; Social sciences; Youth -- Social conditions; Anxiety in youth; Anxiety -- Social aspects; Terrorism -- Psychological aspects; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Psychological aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Anxiety -- Social aspects; Psychological aspects; Terrorism -- Psychological aspects; Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism; Political Science -- History & Theory; Political Science -- Government -- General; Social Science -- Human Geography; Terrorism, armed struggle; Political science & theory; Politics & government; Human geography; Human Geography; Terrorism; World politics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137516299; 1137516291
• Related ISBNs: 9781137516282; 1137516283
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 25, 2017).
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