Phobic Constructions: An Introduction (Hisham Ramadan and Jeff Shantz)
Part 1. Endless Façades: Rethinking Social Phobias
1. Pathologizing Resistance and Promoting Anthropophobia: The Violent Extremism Risk Assessment (VERA) as Case Study (Heidi Rimke)
2. Conflicts of Rights: Free Speech, Freedom to Practice a Religion and the Social Phobia Mighty Machine (Hisham Ramadan)
3. Phobic Constructions: Psychological, Sociological, Criminological Articulations (Jeff Shantz and Hisham Ramadan)
Part 2. Bordering on Fear: Phobias, National Identities, Citizenship
4. Constructions of Phobias, Fractured and Stigmatized Selves, and the Ideal Citizen in Iranian School Textbooks (Amir Mirfakhraie)
5. How to Save… A Nation?: Televisual Fiction Post-9/11 (Melissa Ames)
6. The Preparation for National Revolution or Accepting the Inevitable Decay? (Dmitry Shlapentokh)
7. Phobia in an Age of Post Migrant Rights: The Regional Response and Criminalization of Tamil Refugees (Michael CK Ma and Davina Bhandar)
Part 3. Politics by other Means: Phobias and Political Practice
8. Death Panels on the Prison Planet: The New World Order Conspiracy and the Radicalization of American Politics (Johann Pautz)
9. Degradation Ceremonies: Fear Discourses, Phobic Production, and the Military Metaphysic in Canada (Jeff Shantz)
10. Manufacturing the ‘avaton’ and the ghetto: Places of Fear in the Centre of Athens (Penny (Panagiota) Koutrolikou)
Afterword: Opposing Phobias Going Forward (Hisham M. Ramadan and Jeff Shantz)