Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control (Hardcover, 2)

Contents: M.J. Braun/Danika M. Brown/Catherine Chaput: Preface: An Invitation to Entertain Fear ? Catherine Chaput: Introduction: Fear, Affective Energy, and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism ? M.J. Braun: Electing Empire: Systemic Chaos and the Fear of Falling ? Kevin Douglas Kuswa: Blow Back the Enemy T/here: Errors, Terrors, and the Rhetorical Agenda of WMDs ? Mark A. Gring: We Have Nothing to Fear but…: A Rhetorical Analysis of Fear in Post-9/11 Sermons ? Paul Burkhardt: Fear of Fire and Hope for Jobs: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development in the Political Ecology of Wildfire ? Danika M. Brown: Upwardly Mobile by Degrees: Higher Education and the Rhetorics of Fear ? Amy J. Wan: Boundaries of Citizenship: Undocumented Workers and Temporary Work Policies in the United States ? Zoe Hammer: The Architecture of Fear: Common Sense and The U.S.-Mexico Border Wall ? Cynthia Duquette Smith: Art, Apprehension, and the Gated Community: Thomas Kinkade’s ≪Village≫ ? Cristina Hanganu-Bresch: The Mall of America: Consumption in the Social Wilderness ? Kat McLellan: ≪Is THAT what they are so afraid of?≫: The Popular Media and Pro-Anorexia Websites ? Angela Crow: Transnational Remembering: Navigating Fear and Racism, Shame and Nostalgia ? Michael William Pfau: Conclusion: Contextualizing Fear in History, Scholarship, and the Economy of Affect.