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Author:   Carmen Zamorano Llena (Dalarna University, Sweden) ,  Jonas Stier (Mälardalen University, Sweden) ,  Billy Gray (Dalarna University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9781032268606

ISBN 10:   1032268603
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"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 Fire 5. 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 Wall 11. 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?"

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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).

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