Our papers for the 4S/EASST Congress. Panic

With this post we start a serie of publications where we want to show the short abstract about our several contributions to the 4S/EASST Congress (the biggest STS congress around the world), so you could read the topic about our submissions (all of them are in review process so finally,  they could be not accepted). By the way, you can see our track status here.

Today, we show the second one, titled: "Between Panic and Panic – Fear as a Dangerous Balance in Epidemic Governance".

This paper wants to argue that a regime of pandemic preparedness can only be installed in the form of fear as a pivotal point between two forms of panic that brings the present and the future under a mix of different forms of control by the individual and society. Observations from various focus groups will shed light on the construction and management of fear under a horizon of global pandemic threats.

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