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Kaksikielinen kokoomateos Narratives of fear and safety tarkastelee pelon ja turvallisuuden dynamiikkaa ja kulttuurisia merkityksiä kirjallisuudessa ja muissa medioissa. Englannin- ja ranskankieliset artikkelit tarjoavat tuoreita, kulttuurien rajat ylittäviä tulkintoja pelon ja turvallisuuden teemoista sekä tuottavat uutta tietoa kertomuksen eri lajeille ominaisista tavoista luoda kuvitteellisia maailmoja. Teos osoittaa, kuinka tärkeää pelon ja turvallisuuden esitysten tutkiminen on, jotta voisimme ymmärtää ilmastokriisien kaltaisia globaaleja uhkia ja niiden vaikutuksia tulevaisuuteen. Teoksen pääteemoja lähestytään kirjallisuuden- ja kulttuurintutkimuksen menetelmin uusimpien tutkimussuuntien, muun muassa affekti- ja riskiteorian, lähtökohdista. Useat artikkelit ammentavat sukupuolen ja trauman tutkimuksesta kartoittaessaan kollektiivisia pelkoja ja aggressioita, jotka uhkaavat yksilöiden elämää ja heidän mahdollisuuksiaan löytää keinoja selviytyä pelon tunteiden kanssa. Pelon ja turvallisuuden tematiikkaan keskittyvät myös artikkelit, joissa analysoidaan menneisyyden uudelleen kertomista vanhojen myyttien adaptaatioiden näkökulmasta. Monet teoksen artikkeleista käsittelevät tällä hetkellä suosittuja apokalyptisia ja dystooppisia kertomuksia. Dystopiat eivät keskity pelkästään totalitarismin, teknokratian tai ekologisten katastrofien kaltaisiin tulevaisuudenuhkiin, vaan tutkivat myös vaihtoehtoisia olemisen tapoja, jotka syntyvät poliittisen vastarinnan seurauksena. Teos on saatavilla painettuna mm. Booky.fi ja Adlibris -verkkokirjakaupoista. ; The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety through examining what kinds of genre-specific means of world-making narratives use to express these two affectivities. The articles also show how important it is to study these themes in order to understand challenges in times of global threats, such as the climate crisis. The main themes of the book are approached from various theoretical perspectives as related to their literary and cultural representations. Recent trends in research, such as affect and risk theory, serve as the basis for the discussion. Many of the articles in the volume discuss apocalyptic and dystopian narratives that currently permeate the entire cultural landscape. Dystopian narratives do not only deal with future threats, such as totalitarianism, technocracy, or environmental disasters, but also suggest alternative ways of being and new hopes in the form of political resistance. The articles in the volume also draw from disciplines such as gender studies and trauma studies to examine the threats posed by collective fears and aggression on individuals' lives and propose ways of coping with fear. These themes are addressed also in articles analysing new adaptations of old myths that retell stories of the past. Available in print from online bookstores e.g. Booky.fi and Adlibris. Contents: Introduction: Affective spaces in European literature and other narrative media / Elise Nykänen & Hanna Samola I CULTURAL POLITICS OF FEAR AND SAFETY L'oeuvre, la peur et le temps : Pour une saisie du risque par la littérature / Anne Duprat Knocking on Europe's door: How narratives of fear, insecurity and nostalgia shape collective perceptions of immigration / Anna Notaro Pro loco et tempore : La littérature portugaise a l'épicentre de la crise économique / Serafina Martins II FEAR AND SAFETY ACROSS GENRES "We have to fix this world now": Hope, utopianism, and new modes of political agency in two contemporary Finnish young adult dystopias / Maria Laakso La sécurité ou l'exacerbation des peurs au profit d'une liberté provisoire / Orlane Glises De La Riviere Mind the gap: Fear on the London Underground / Cristiana Pugliese Peur du chaos et retour a l'humain : Le mythe du yéti selon Hergé et Castelli-Manara / Brigitte Le Juez III CULTURAL AND TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON FEAR AND SAFETY Fear of unjust memory or desire for secure identity? Remembering the era of 1989 transition in contemporary Polish novel / Olga Szmidt Fear of the Other: Representations of Otherness in Irish and Ukrainian famine fictions / Tatiana Krol The fear of cultural belonging: Sharon Dodua Otoo's transnational writing / Nora Moll Fear and safety in contemporary Russian cinema: A transcultural perspective / Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak Divakaruni's Before We Visit the Goddess: Overcoming fears and instabilities / Metka Zupančič IV COPING WITH FEAR Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as posthumanity in graphic narratives / Lisa DeTora Of murdered babies and silenced histories: Gendering memory in two francophone trauma narratives / Nathalie Ségeral Peur et humour : Le cas de l'humour noir / Jean-Marc Moura L'Autre dans la fiction post-apocalyptique du XXI siecle / Jasmin Hammon V THE END OF THE WORLD? FROM CULTURAL ECOLOGIES TO ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS Michel Deguy's l'etre-comme and the poetics of ecological comparativism / Sam La Védrine Sans dessus dessous (1889) de Jules Verne : Dernier avertissement avant l'Apocalypse / Laure Léveque Le Japon de Fukushima comme lieu de discours pour des auteurs francophones / Sabine Kraenker L'invention de la catastrophe au XVIII siecle : Une invention renouvelée a la croisée de la littérature, de l'histoire des sociétés et de l'histoire environnementale / Sandra Contamina

International audience ; This contribution aims at discussing how news media produce fear about the European Union (EU) and the discursive strategies employed to (de)legitimate it. The research rests upon a case study related to the production of 'news of fear' about EU, by Cypriot online media. In mobilising a diachronic approach the study aiming at scrutinizing the impact of financial crisis (2013) on the media discourse about EU in the Cypriot public sphere. The study proposes a twofold analysis of these media discourses by articulating their content with their process of production: a discourse analysis of the news stories (Discourse Historical Approach) and an analysis of the production process (Configurational Analysis) through interviews with those directly involved. Specifically, it gives emphasis to the different ways that media (de)construct fear about "Europe", in relation to their: a) ideological background (political profile and linkage with political parties); b) organisational structure (division of labour and vertical/horizontal internal hierarchy); Thus, the proposition also aims to contribute to the methodological and theoretical discussion on the linkage between discourse and process analysis in the field of media research and discourse studies. It shows that an analytical perspective that takes into consideration simultaneously both media discourse and its process of production has important benefits for research. The use of such approach is heuristic and helps to avoid interpretative mistakes by analysts. It stress the importance of reconnecting sociological interrogations on interactions and power relations between actors within the field of production to media discourse analysis. This is particularly important in studying how organisational structures, symbolic power relations and cultural factors influence mediatised discourses of fear about Europe.

International audience ; This contribution aims at discussing how news media produce fear about the European Union (EU) and the discursive strategies employed to (de)legitimate it. The research rests upon a case study related to the production of 'news of fear' about EU, by Cypriot online media. In mobilising a diachronic approach the study aiming at scrutinizing the impact of financial crisis (2013) on the media discourse about EU in the Cypriot public sphere. The study proposes a twofold analysis of these media discourses by articulating their content with their process of production: a discourse analysis of the news stories (Discourse Historical Approach) and an analysis of the production process (Configurational Analysis) through interviews with those directly involved. Specifically, it gives emphasis to the different ways that media (de)construct fear about "Europe", in relation to their: a) ideological background (political profile and linkage with political parties); b) organisational structure (division of labour and vertical/horizontal internal hierarchy); Thus, the proposition also aims to contribute to the methodological and theoretical discussion on the linkage between discourse and process analysis in the field of media research and discourse studies. It shows that an analytical perspective that takes into consideration simultaneously both media discourse and its process of production has important benefits for research. The use of such approach is heuristic and helps to avoid interpretative mistakes by analysts. It stress the importance of reconnecting sociological interrogations on interactions and power relations between actors within the field of production to media discourse analysis. This is particularly important in studying how organisational structures, symbolic power relations and cultural factors influence mediatised discourses of fear about Europe.

Over the last few years, the organization of public debates in situations of socio-technical or socio-scientific controversy has increased considerably. This should lead to a certain form of social peace due to the fact that each of the stakeholders - including citizens associations - are able to express their ideas and make their voices heard. In such conditions, how can it be that these debates, instead of easing conflicts, are more likely to radicalize the positions of the various parties involved, and to give the groups opposing the projects the feeling of being exploited? Part of the answer lies in the numerous systems aiming at moderating discussions, which may have been set up by the debates organizers not so much in order to prevent participants from going off the rails, but rather to avoid the development of convincing arguments. Some fear of rhetoric would then be at work. The analysis of debates and consultations, institutionally organized as part of controversial coal-bed methane drilling projects in the Moselle area, allows to support this hypothesis and to offer an explanation.

À la peur diffuse de la montée des inégalités sociales et à l'insécurité engendrée par la crise des refugiés, le terrorisme ainsi que la menace potentielle créée par la politique impérialiste de Vladimir Poutine, s'ajoute en Pologne le niveau bas de confiance sociale due, entre autres, aux aléas de l'histoire polonaise. La peur se nourrit de l'imaginaire, et c'est sur lui que se construit aujourd'hui la communication de l'élite politique au pouvoir en Pologne et des médias qui lui sont inféodés. Le pouvoir en place redouble d'efforts pour revigorer le mythe de la martyrologie polonaise. Conscient que la mémoire collective est malléable, le PiS cherche à réécrire l'histoire du pays pour la débarrasser de l'influence du cosmopolitisme et des libéraux. Face à ce tournant autoritaire et eurosceptique, les organisations de la société civile polonaise, telle la fondation Geremek, ont un rôle prééminent à jouer : leurs idées et actions, bien qu'obstruées par les autorités politiques, peuvent remplir une fonction de « contre-pouvoir » et, par conséquent, avoir un impact beaucoup plus grand que celui de l'opposition politique dans la déconstruction des « risques-chimères » fabriqués à tout-va par les gouvernants national-populistes. ; Adding to diffuse fears in Poland over the rise in social inequality and insecurity associated with the refugee crisis, over terrorism and the potential threat of Vladimir Putin's imperialist policies, is the low level of social confidence that arises in part from the vicissitudes of Poland's history. Fear feeds on imagination, and it is on imagination that Poland's political elite and its vassal media are building up their communication, as the government redoubles its efforts to reinvigorate the myth of Polish martyrdom. The PiS is well aware of the malleability of the collective memory, and is attempting to rewrite the nation's history to rid it of the influence of liberalism and cosmopolitanism. Faced with this authoritarian and Eurosceptic policy shift, civil society organisations in Poland, such as the Geremek Foundation, have a crucial role: despite government obstruction, their ideas and actions act as a political counterweight and can therefore be much more effective than opposition parties in deconstructing the "scare stories" being churned out by the nationalist-populist powers that be.