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Foreword, by Renata Salecl Preface Introduction: Anxiety as a New Global Narrative Part I: Disciplinary Perspectives on Anxiety 1. Vulnerable Political Brains in Anxiety Cultures, by Liya Yu 2. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Anxiety: Changing Environment, Changing Brain, Changing Self?, by Frauke Nees 3. Anxiety Culture as Social Reality and Object of Philosophical Consideration Part II: Climate Change and the Environment 4. Eco-Anxiety: A Philosophical Approach, by Eric Lewandowski and Michel Bourban 5. Death Anxiety and Fossil Fuels, by Dominic Boyer 6. Climate Change Anxiety in Young People, by Kelsey Hudson 7. Who Is Afraid of Climate Change? Exploring Correlates of Climate Anxiety Using Machine Learning Models, by Christian Martin and Kristina Allgoewer Part III: Population Health and Social Well-Being 8. A Public Health Perspective on Anxiety, by Nicholas Freudenberg 9. Anxiety and School Gun Violence in America, by Sonali Rajan 10. Adolescent Anxiety: Iceland as Canary in the Coal Mine, by Bryndis Asgeirsdottir, Caine Meyers, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, and Ingibjorg Eva Thorisdottir 11. Anxiety and Global Health: Chinese Perspectives, by Angelika Messner, Roman Marek, and Zhao Xudong Part IV: Migration, Language, and Culture 12. Crisis, Affect, and Migration: The Production of Legitimacy within Political Orders, by Monica Van Der Haagen-Wulff and Paul Mecheril 13. Narrative Anxiety: An Examination of Fractured Memory Through the Lens of Contemporary Francophone Literature, by Emmanuel Kattan 14. Multilingual Anxiety in Migration Contexts, by Barbara Roviro and Eva Daussa 15. Anxiety and Mobility/Immobility: Democracy and Authoritarian Closures, by Julie Mostov Part V: Technology 16. Anxiety Culture as Fuel for Industrialism, by Raphael Liogier 17. Fear and Technology in Modern Europe: A Call for Researching Fears as Drivers of Technology Development, by Karena Kalmbach 18. Fear and Freedom in Technology: On Prometheus as an Ambiguous Figure of Technology in Philosophy, by Christine Blaeettler 19. Technology Policy in Society 5.0: A Comparison of the Technological Innovation Strategies of Germany and Japan, by Iris Wieczorek and Markus Lemmens Part VI: Coda 20. Discourse, Fantasy, and Anxiety in Trump's America, by Dirk Nabers and Frank Stengel 21. Climate Anxieties in Discourse: From Mental States to Arguments, by Konrad Ott and Maren Urner 22. No Longer Waiting for Messiah: The Antidote for the Tyranny of Happiness in Therapeutic Culture, by Julie Reshe Afterword, by John Baldacchino Appendix List of Contributors Index
John P. Allegrante (NEW YORK, NY), an applied behavioral scientist, is the Charles Irwin Lambert professor of health behavior and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ulrich Hoinkes (KIEL, GERMANY) is a Romance philologist, a linguist, and a professor of Romance studies and teacher education at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. Michael Schapira (ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND) is an independent scholar and the author of University in Crisis: From the Middle Ages to the University of Excellence. Karen Struve (BREMEN, GERMANY) is a professor of Franco-Romance and literary studies at the University of Bremen.