Contents: Preface; Fear, critical geopolitics and everyday life, Rachel Pain and Susan J. Smith; Section 1 State Fears and Popular Fears: From presidential podiums to pop music: everyday discourses of geopolitical danger in Uzbekistan, Nick Megoran; Growing pains? Fear, exclusion and citizenship in a disadvantaged UK neighbourhood, Catherine Alexander; Fear and the familial in the US war on terror, Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert; Me and my monkey: what's hiding in the security state, Cindi Katz. Section 2 Fear of Nature and the Nature of Fear: Pandemic anxiety and global health security, Alan Ingram; Nature, fear and rurality, Jo Little. Section 3 Encountering Fear and Otherness: Scaling segregation: racialising fear, Peter E. Hopkins and Susan J. Smith; practising fear: encountering O/other bodies, Michael Haldrup, Lasse Koefoed and Kirsten Simonsen; Neither relaxed nor comfortable: the affective regulation of migrant belonging in Australia, Greg Noble and Scott Poynting; Youth and the geopolitics of risk after 11th September 2001, Kathrin Hörschelmann. Section 4 Regulating Fear: On strawberry fields and cherry-picking: fear and desire in the bordering and immigration politics of the European Union, Henk van Houtum and Roos Pijpers; Identity cards and coercion in Palestine, Nadia Abu-Zhara; Ethno-sectarianism and the construction of fear in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Peter Shirlow. Section 5 Fear, Resistance and Hope: Whose fear is it anyway? Resisting terror fear and fear for children, Rachel Pain; Practising hope: learning from social movement strategies in the Philippines, Sarah Wright; (Re)negotiations: towards a transformative geopolitics of fear and otherness, Kye Askins; Afterword; Index.