Nothing to lose but our fear
By: Fiona Jeffries in conversation with Lydia Cacho ... [et al.].
Contributors: Cacho, Lydia, 1963-
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781783604142; 9781783604159
Subjects: Journalists; Resistance to Government; Social aspects; Interviews; Social control; Human rights workers; Fear; Scholars
Description: "Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it's not the war on terror, it's the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the new black, as catastrophe after casualty after crash shape the order of the day. We Have Nothing to Lose but our Fear delivers a counter blow to this rampant culture of fear fuelled by the likes of CNN, FOX and the Daily Mail. Exploring contemporary and historical manifestations of this controlling force, the conversations in this collection go beyond just scrutinizing what constitutes rational versus irrational fear, or identifying ways in which human fears are manipulated by political players. They reveal how fear antagonizes and changes our subjectivity and crucially, how the political use of fear has been resisted in different times and places, by different people across the globe"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Fiona Jeffries; title: pt. I. Historicizing. Marcus Rediker : the theatre and counter-theatre of fear; title: Silvia Federici : remembering resistance from the witch hunts to alter-globalization; title: pt. II. Theorizing. David Harvey : indignant cities; title: Nandita Sharma : terror and mercy at the border; title: John Holloway : we are the fragility of the system; title: pt. III. Practicing. Lydia Cacho : dangerous journalism; title: Sandra Moran : feminist indignation; title: Gustavo Esteva : political courage and the strange persistence of hope; title: Wendy Mendez : remembering the disappeared, revealing hidden histories of resistance.