Open AccessThe Age of Fear: Terrorism, Pandemic, and Refugees
Author(s) -
Ali Zafer Sağıroğlu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
i̇nsan and toplum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2602-2745
pISSN - 2146-7099
DOI - 10.12658/m0642
Subject(s) - refugee , terrorism , power (physics) , pandemic , politics , social psychology , psychology , criminology , political science , covid-19 , law , medicine , physics , disease , quantum mechanics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Social scientists have defined modern times by different names and fear is one of them. As the driver for the historical flow in global range besides many other phenomena terror, epidemic and refugee issues direct the individual and social life of the age as a source of fear. This study aims to read how fear affects the social life of the time through the fear of terrorists, epidemics, and refugees. Secondly, it is to clarify what kind of fear is being constructed by these phenomenons and what is the interaction between them. Seeking control is constructed by a peculiar language produced by various actors, fear sources, which turn into an important device for the management and administration of people, become a perfect tool not only for those in power but also for power pretenders. Consequently, realistic or unrealistic sources of fear mutually feed the pursuit of control and the politics of fear.