Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Imagining a Future of Crisis, Terror and Anxiety; Our Anxious World; The Burden of the Desire for Financial Security; Precariousness, Precarity and Vulnerability; Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop…; The Dangers of Living in a Bubble; 2 Anxiety, Violence and the Social World; An Anxious Society; Social Networking Anxieties; The Trump Phenomenon in an Age of Neoliberalism/Neoconservativism; Anxiety in Neoliberalism and the Emergence of the Tea Party; Conclusions: Anxiety in a Neoliberal Age

3 Precarious Futures: Young People and the Global Financial CrisisThe Anxiety in the Middle; How did the Financial Crisis Affect your Plans for the Future?; Preparing for Panic!; Resilience, Risk and Young People After the GFC; Conclusion: The GFC and Hope; 4 Guerrilla Selfhood: Imagining Entrepreneurial Futures; Introduction: The Entrepreneurial Imagination; From the Self as Enterprise to Guerrilla Selfhood; The Guerrilla Self and Post-GFC Precarity; Clifton's GFC; Robert's GFC; Isabella's GFC; Conclusions: The Entrepreneurial Future…Dreaming Dangerously

5 Responsiveness and Re-imagining the Future with Occupy and Black Lives MatterFighting for the Future, Fighting for Community; Occupy the Future; Black Lives (and White Allies) Matter; Living with Hope: Decolonising Hope; Kim; Nira; Sue; Harris; Conclusions…Where Anxiety Meets Hope; 6 The Global Financial Crisis in Pop-Culture; Trendy Poverty in Williamsburg; Tumblrs and 'Broke Girls'
Representations of Young People in Economic Disadvantage; Occupying and the Coming Revolution: The Hunger Games and Youthful Imagining; Katniss Everdeen and the Right Kind of Eyes; The Hanging Tree

The MockingjayPrecariousness: Imagined and Unimaginable Futures; How Generation K Imagines the Future; Do…Something; Conclusions: Social Justice as a Currency; 7 Iraqi Women's Stories of Anxiety and Unrest from the Blogosphere; Young Women and the Cost of War; Women in Iraq: Invasion, Days of Rage and the Emergence of ISIS; Digital Selves and Blog Therapy: 'Take a Valium or Start a Blog'; 'I Want to Escape': War, Weblogs, PTSD and Valium; Conclusions; 8 Security Guards and Counter-terrorism: Gaps in Terrorism Prevention; Terrorism and Industry; Terrorism, Human Behaviour and Security Thinking

The Counter-Terrorism Role of Security GuardsImagining Security: Guards in Popular Culture; Conclusion: Who is Responsible for our Safety?; 9 The Politics of Anxiety; Imagine Their Presence: Living in the End Times; The Most Casual Item in the Newspaper Grabs Your Attention; Alertness that Hovers Just This Side of Alarm; Conclusion: The Rules of Political Anxiety; References; Index