Fear as a Political Factor

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2236795
AutoresHenrik Enroth (0000-0002-9975-6371, Linnaeus University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Data de publicação2017-03-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
DOI10.1093/ips/olw033
OpenAlexW2594139601
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas38

In past decades, social and cultural theory as well as international relations theory and political theory have been preoccupied with the subject of fear. In this article, I return the conversation about fear as a political factor to what may be the oldest subject in the book: the connection between fear and political authority. Today, I suggest, we are in the midst of a shift in our understanding of this relationship, prompted not least by efforts to come to terms, analytically and politically, with the challenges of climate change. The article seeks to get a clearer view of this shift by identifying and analyzing three distinct stories in academic and public discourse about fear and political authority. By way of conclusion, I venture that these mutations in our ways of thinking, speaking, and feeling about political authority and fear point toward a model of political authority for post-sovereign conditions

Conversation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feeling · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subject (documents · Humanities and Social Sciences · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Law · Social Psychology