ANXIETY CULTURE

A collection of timely essays on the rising wave of anxiety in culture The twenty first century is characterized by uncertainty from catastrophic climate change to the accelerating pace of technological change societies around the world are gripped by anxiety about the future In Anxiety Culture editors John Allegrante Ulrich Hoinkes Michael Schapira and Karen Struve bring together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine the forces that increase anxiety as a phenomenon beyond solely individual experiences of clinical anxiety to pervade global culture These trenchant essays examine our culture of anxiety across diverse avenues of society Covering fears related to climate change populist and extremist movements around the world gun violence artificial intelligence and more contributors also examine how anxiety is expressed in literature and the media and how a culture of anxiety affects policymaking Chapters are organized into five sections disciplinary perspectives on anxiety climate change and the environment population health and social well being migration and technology There s room for hope however Contributors provide pragmatic recommendations for coping with anxiety culture in public education governments and NGOs Anx