ABSTRACT
In accounts of the new geopolitics of fear, fear is drawn into geopolitical governance and conflict. The paradoxical lack of interest in feeling itself within analysis of the new geopolitics of fear is likely only to reinforce a fixation with the global as the key scale for analysis. There are exceptions within the new geopolitics of fear literature. The particular conceptual, epistemological and political agenda for an emotional geopolitics of fear that this chapter forward here uses the concept of conscientization, which was first used by the Brazilian radical educator Paulo Freire to describe the development of critical consciousness from within. As the earlier critique of the position of human agency in the new geopolitics of fear literature suggested, there is an urgent need to interrogate how power and resistance among individuals and communities, alongside power and domination by the state, might apply to the effects of emotions.
