Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power

Micol Seigel is professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the author of Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police (Duke University Press, 2018) and Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (Duke, 2009).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and CaptionsList of ContributorsIntroduction, Micol SeigelPart I. The Coloniality of PanicChapter 1: Privateers and Public Ends: Piracy as Global Moral Panic- Jatin DuaChapter 2: Moral Panic versus Moral Blindness: Responses to Children’s Militarization in Uganda and the US- Michelle Moyd, Frances M. Clarke, and Rebecca Jo PlantChapter 3: Ebola: Keywords- Adia BentonChapter 4: A Panicky Atmosphere: On the Coloniality of Climate Change- Alex ChambersChapter 5: The Panic over Human Smuggling: From the Nineteenth Century Coolie Trade to Today’s Migrants- Elliott YoungPart II. Too Mobile: Panic at the BordersChapter 6: Rescuing the Blonde Angel: The Global Captivity Narrative and the Panic of 2013- Susan LepselterChapter 7: The Everywhere Drug War: Narcoterror and the Global Flows of the Methamphetamine Imaginary- Travis Linnemann and Kyra MartinezChapter 8: Black Bodies, Wrong Places: Rolezinho, Moral Panic, and Racialized Male Subjects in Brazil- Osmundo PinhoChapter 9: Circulating Sin: Sailors and Benevolence in Early Nineteenth-Century New York- Dana LoganChapter 10: Transnational Securityscapes: Central American (Immigrant) Youth and the ‘Military Option’- Elana Zilberg,Part III. Resisting Rescue: Sex/WorkChapter 11: Stop the Woman, Save the State: Policing, Order, and the Black Woman’s Body- Rudo MudiwaChapter 12: Modern-Day Slavery: The Analogy Problem in Human Trafficking Reform- Julietta HuaChapter 13: Saving Love: Compassion, Desire, Violence, and Deceit in Late Capitalism- Courtney MitchelChapter 14: And Still We Rise’: Moral Panics, Dark Sousveillance, and Politics Otherwise in the New New Orleans- Laura McTighe