Formations of terror / by Simon Bell.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bell, Simon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Violence--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

There are a host of books about fear but, as yet, there has been little attempt to methodically and systemically assess how fear emerges and is targeted. This highly readable yet rigorous book sets about the methodical assessment of fear as an emergent property. Working from the personal experience of fear as 'everyman', and then using examples and case studies, it explores the main principles which lie behind the manifestation of fear of all kinds. Using climate change as its specific point of focus, fear is seen to be a major force in problem assessment and analysis and, by accident or intention, a significant confusion to human decision making. By the systemic development of the main features of the Paradigm of Fear and the identification of Fear Amplifying and Fear Attenuating systems, the book demonstrates how fear can be contained, how new social forms can arise and how new behaviours and social qualities can mitigate the Formations of Terror.

Contents:

• Intro
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Index.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4438-7851-0

OCLC:

975955332