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Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power (Paperback)
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Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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This volume explores the panic that is a central affective register
of our current international order. Fears of Somali pirates,
"Gypsy" kidnappers, African warlords, Ebola, "Mexican meth," pimps,
coyotes, gangs, climate refugees and more, structure the dark side
of a metropolitan unconscious. These are terrors over things that
(might) cross borders, threatening the sanctity of territoriality
and capital. Inspired by scholarship challenging panics around
human and sex trafficking, the contributors to this volume develop
the umbrella category of the global moral panic. Embracing the
challenge of grasping a phenomenon not previously regarded as
cohering, they consider panics provoked by travel, passage,
transgression; panics over bodies that move. Like panics over
trafficking, the episodes narrated here ride and feed a field of
common sense regarding crime, rights, and state power. Their logics
of victims and villains nourish notions of the centrality of
punishment, drawing from and feeding taxonomies of gender, race,
and nation, solidifying the order craved by capital. They spotlight
the coloniality of power, the ongoing salience of empire, the
savior logics of rescue, and the profound sexism organizing
hierarchies of bodies and places. Panic, this volume diagnoses, is
a crucial, undertheorized facet of contemporary local-global
relations.
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