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About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Historicizing

1. Marcus Rediker: The Theatre and Counter-Theatre of Fear

Political Formations

Histories of Violence

Pirate Ways of Knowing

Violent Pedagogies

Exemplary Punishment, Refusal of Fear

Accumulating Bodies

Laughing at Fear

Reflections on the Violence of Abstraction

2. Silvia Federici: Remembering Resistance from the Witch Hunts to Alter-Globalization

Fear Needn’t Paralyze You

Movement, Solidarity, and Love

Intimate Resistance

A Political Life in Motion

Terrorizing Women

The Divisions among Us

Confronting Fear

Part II: Theorizing

3. David Harvey: Indignant Cities

Urban Unrest as an Impetus to Social Inquiry

Spaces of Hope and Fear

Stories of Fear

Fears of the Seen and the Unseen

Suburban Fears

Crisis Cycles

Alliances of the Dispossessed and the Discontented

4. Nandita Sharma: Terror and Mercy at the Border

An Initiation in Violence

Alternative Routes

Ideal Victims and Benevolent Rescuers

Fear Nation

Love and Fear

No Borders, Global Democracy

5. John Holloway: We Are the Fragility of the System

Asking We Walk

Dignity against Fear

Screaming in the Darkness

Thinking through Crisis

Living in the Subjunctive

Fear’s Antagonists

Resonances

Against and Beyond

Dignity

Fear and Debt

Part III: Practicing

6. Lydia Cacho: Dangerous Journalism

Journeys in Lost Cities

Impunity

A Functional Dictatorship

Fears of the Powerful

7. Sandra Moran: Feminist Indignation

Power Over, Power To

Indignation

Legacy of War

Resistance

8. Gustavo Esteva: Political Courage and the Strange Persistence of Hope

Beginnings

Global Fear

Coalitions of the Discontented

Security without the Security State

Political Courage

Temporalities of Hope and Fear

9. Wendy Mendez: Remembering the Disappeared, Revealing Hidden Histories of Resistance

Remembering

Closing the Cycle of Death

Women’s Public Struggle against Fear

Uncovering Histories

De-militarizing the Mind

Our Love Is Bigger Than Their Fear

Letting the Walls Speak

Fearless Speech

Index

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