...D. Travers Scott and Meagan Bates analyze television advertisements for anti-anxiety medications in order to explore the status of anxiety as a disability. Through close textual analysis, informed by Foucauldian theory and political economy, they demonstrate the intricate ways that femininity...

... immateriality of contemporary life across a number of registers is associated with a lack of realness, which is, once again, a source of anxiety. The chapter considers a number of examples, including American heritage fashion, post-recession advertising campaigns, speeches by Barack Obama, and Spike Jonze’s...

... or may soon disappear altogether, but rather that society itself is under attack, and more specifically the bonds of responsibility on which social relations depend. Drawing from recent work on affect/emotion and from the controversial antisocial thesis in queer theory, the book argues that the anxiety...

...This introductory chapter illustrates the anxiety of the deaf subject caught “in between,” noting that between space is one of longing, yet also one of belonging, and one, too, of limits. Another source of anxiety is their audience—deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing alike—since it is hard to shape...

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...This concluding chapter investigates the “supposedly” colorblind and gender-neutral casting of the Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica (BSG) in order to articulate what is referred to as twenty-first-century racial anxiety: racial passing. It argues that the racial diversity...

.... Lykken's studies sought to empirically test the assertion that the main clinical characteristic of psychopaths was a lack of normal emotional responses. Lykken hypothesized that the emotional deficit of psychopaths was specific to emotions such as fear or anxiety. Indeed, he found that psychopathic...

...The chapter introduces readers to a class of 13 to 14-year-old in an average London school. Through our ethnographic case study, we present the rationale for the study and key theoretical frameworks. We explore the public’s concerns and anxieties around teaching, learning, family life, peer...

... are introduced, including the politics of parenting in the United States; middle-class aesthetics and anxieties, particularly as these relate to parenting and food; and theories of neoliberalism and its impacts on selfhood and everyday life. In addition, this chapter describes the research setting of the book...

...This chapter disagrees with how math is being taught today, addresses the development of a now pervasive “math anxiety,” and aims to devise an approach to teaching math that seeks to avoid it. Introducing mathematical concepts according to their actual historical sequencing eliminates some...

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... of the remaining chapters and reiterates the overall argument of the book: that concerns about playbor, automation, and the sharing economy mask a deeper anxiety about the degradation of social bonds, and that this anxiety does not simply express an attachment to these bonds, but attempts to restore them...

... proposes that anxiety is not simply an individual psychological disposition, but can also be ascribed to modes of thought. The chapter then argues that anxiety, as a discursive affect, functions as a “straightening device,” policing antisocial subjects (or non-subjects) and calling them back to valued...

... evidence of the way police question suspects and instead uses interrogation training manuals and programs as a proxy for real interrogation. The chapter notes that during questioning, police utilize the Reid Method which includes psychological tactics to heighten stress and anxiety during questioning...

... generally characterized by measurable themes of progress, abundance, and improvement, are people not happier or more content with their lot in life? Why is there an increased incidence of psychological depression, anxiety, and the sense that no one has ever reached a pinnacle of happiness or contentment...

... for a pre-“New Economy” past, a critique of a “new entrepreneurial” present, during the boom and subsequent bust. In analyzing the political implications of this “cultural politics of class,” the chapter reveals expressions of adult middle-class anxiety and political entrapment that influenced young...

...This chapter focuses on the cause of workplace violence. Among the more common reasons given for increasing workplace violence are economic fears regarding job security, heightened concerns for personal safety, and generalized stress and anxiety among workers. Even when there appears...

...While many immigrants exhibit extraordinary resilience in the face of daunting hardships (such as the loss of family, country, culture, language, and multiple changes), clinicians and researchers have reported high levels of psychological and emotional distress including anxiety, depression...

... of the city’s present pathology: rape culture and the aftershocks of the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder. Initially, the Delhi film did not tackle this palpable anxiety. The narratives sought to revise representational tropes, often sketching new female characters: economically independent, ambitious...