Von der Zeitdiagnose zur Gesellschaftswissenschaft der Angst. Eine Einführung

Martin, Susanne

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“…Diese reicht über die Culture of Fear (Furedi 2006), Zygmunt Baumans Liquid Fear (2006 und Heinz Budes Gesellschaft der Angst (2014) zu Ulrich Beck, der den modernen Menschen emphatisch ausrufen lässt: "Ich habe Angst!" 2 (Beck 1986: 66;Eckert 2019: 12;Martin 2020).…”

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Locked in Liminality. Angst und Methode in der Krisenerfahrung der Gegenwart

Eisch-Angus¹

2022

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Against the backdrop of proclamations of a society of fear, risk and panic from the late 1970s to the present, the article takes a lead from fears as productive agents within the ethnographic process. Through the focal lens of pandemic everyday experience, and deploying essayistic ways of thinking and writing, it draws attention to the intersubjective and intercorporeal practice of meaning-making as conceptualised in phenomenology, psychoanalysis and pragmatist semiotics, and outlines its relevance for emergent interpretation and reflexivity. On an interactive micro-level, the essay explores the moment of ‘in-between’ that is sparked by surprise or crisis, and opens a transient ‘third milieu’ where experience can be shared, whilst cultural meaning is in ongoing renegotiation. The idea of this ambivalent space, as marked by indeterminate creative possibilities merging with fear and uncertainty, is followed further through Corona communication and narration, and investigated in its ambiguous effects of consolidating agency, and perpetuating anxiety and ideological exclusion by way of paranoid ‘infection’. The article inquires into the dynamic conceptual potentials of liminality theory, which it transgresses towards a late-capitalist state of permanent exception: What happens when everyday actors find themselves overpowered by paradoxical emotional requirements that cannot be resolved into new sociality? How can ethnographers, with view to their own involvement into the meshes of everyday fears, retain an empathic, yet empirically grounded understanding of pandemic experience and beyond?

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Locked in Liminality. Angst und Methode in der Krisenerfahrung der Gegenwart

Eisch-Angus¹

2022

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On the persistence of fear in late capitalism: insights from modernisation theories and affect theories

Martin¹

2022

Emotions and Society

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For decades, sociologists have characterised fear as the predominant emotion of late-capitalist societies. How can this be explained? Which determinants underlie the continuing relevance of fear? To answer this question, I draw on insights from modernisation theories and affect theories, which I see as complementing and extending each other. I argue that the former provide a ‘structural approach to fear’, focusing on fear-generating socioeconomic and cultural transformations, while the latter provide an ‘approach to fear’s affectivity’, focusing on the bodily and relational character of fear as well as its modulation by the current politics of fear. By combining these approaches, both the structural and affective dimensions of significant causes and effects of fear can be illuminated. This allows for the contouring of the late-capitalist ‘affect regime of fear’ using its structural and affective preconditions, which offers an expanded explanation for the persistence of fear in late-capitalist societies. Therefore, I will first introduce both approaches and outline their mutual extensions. Second, I will reconstruct and combine their insights regarding two significant fear-related phenomena, namely global risks and neoliberal lifestyles. Third, I will illustrate that these are preferentially processed through the affective politics of fear that reinforces politics of securitisation and politics of inequality. Finally, I will summarise the main features of the affect regime of fear and outline how the sociology of fear might benefit from bringing modernisation and affect theories’ approaches into dialogue.

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Von der Zeitdiagnose zur Gesellschaftswissenschaft der Angst. Eine Einführung

Cited by 2 publications

References 24 publications

Locked in Liminality. Angst und Methode in der Krisenerfahrung der Gegenwart

Locked in Liminality. Angst und Methode in der Krisenerfahrung der Gegenwart

On the persistence of fear in late capitalism: insights from modernisation theories and affect theories

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