Strangers, Foreigners, Outlanders, Migrants or Invaders have far too often stoodon our doorstep, wreaking havoc in our hearts and minds. Little tin soldiers inCrimea, waves of migrants flooding the shores of the European Union -contemporary Fears and Anxieties are dressed in olive-drab jackets or in thedirty and ragged clothes of those who dare to cross the border of their countryand escape to a better world. These fears, and many others, are carefullyrecorded in the pages of this dialogic and genuinely inter-disciplinary volume,which seeks to explore anxieties not only with scientific detachment, but alsowith humane empathy. The authors examine these complex social emotions
nurtured by events taking place both beyond the confines of one’s House and within it. Because Enemies are not only extra muros. Strangers found intramuros can be more dangerous than those coming from the outside. Let’s take a look at them, in order to know them and turn them into real friends.
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Magdalena Hodalska, PhD, was a freelance reporter and is now a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests are media narratives, discourse and language, war correspondence and fear in the media.
Catalin Ghita, PhD, Dr Habil, was a Japanese Government Scholar at Tohoku University and is now Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Craiova, Romania. His research interests are: fear in literature, visionary poetry, romanticism and cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia.
Izabela Dixon, PhD, specialises in cognitive linguistics, metaphor and the study of contemporary fears and anxieties. She has published numerous articles on a wide range of subjects including conceptual metaphors of fear and evil, cognitive definitions of monsters, ethno-linguistics, US and THEM schema and aspects of the ‘war on terror’ discourse.