A One Day Workshop at UCL Students' Union, Bloomsbury, London July 3rd 2001

Convenors: Pete Shirlow (University of Ulster), Rachel Pain (University of Durham) and the Conference of Socialist Economists (Capital & Class)

This workshop aimed to explore the operation of fear at a variety of spatial scales. The contributors highlighted several dimensions including:

• Analysing how hegemonic definitions of fear mark out moral geographies/politics which marginalize and exclude feared social groups;
• Examining how landscape/places form the medium by which cultural representations of threat and oppression are reinforced and remade in spaces and social memory;
• Explore the argument that tools of surveillance facilitate the management of fear; Defining how the fears that affect marginalised groups are silenced and hidden.

Contributors and Themes

Betsy Stanko (Royal Holloway) Discussant

John Gold and George Reville (Oxford Brookes University) Exploring Landscapes of Fear: marginality, spectacle and surveillance

Jo Goodey (United Nations) Masculinities and Fear Rachel Pain (Durham University) Youth, age and the representation of fear

Pete Shirlow (University of Ulster) Spaces of Fear and the Perpetuation of Ethno-Sectarianism in Belfast

Molly Warrington (University of Cambridge) Domestic violence and fear

Colin Webster (University of Teeside) Construction of race and fear

Leslie Moran (Birkbeck University of London) and Beverley Skeggs (Manchester University) The gender and spaces of fear

Phil Hubbard (University of Loughborough) Dealing with difference: excursions into the city at night.