{"id":696,"date":"2016-12-08T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sakraplatser.abe.kth.se\/?page_id=696"},"modified":"2016-12-08T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:02:22","slug":"micro-and-macro-fear-generators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/micro-and-macro-fear-generators\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro and Macro Fear Generators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-697 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/12\/palavras-1-e1481198437151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/12\/palavras-1-e1481198437151.jpg 333w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/12\/palavras-1-e1481198437151-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>Individual factors play an important role in defining fear. Being a previous victim of crime is a strong determinant of fear. Gender and age are important factors but there are also physical and psychological abilities, ethnic background, socioeconomic status and self-identity. Traditionally, individuals with a degree of vulnerability (the disable, the older adults, women, the poor) declare being more often fearful than the rest of the population. At <strong><em>Safeplaces network<\/em><\/strong> we believe that more appropriate is perhaps to approach fear as an <em>intersectional concept<\/em>. In other words, fear is not only about age or gender but rather a result of the intersection of individual\u2019s characteristics. Being an old and poor creates \u2018layers of disadvantage\u2019 that affects how one perceives the world and expresses fear.<\/p>\n<p>Fear and anxieties can also be fed by an individual\u2019s uncertainties and frustrations in everyday life, such as being unemployed or having a sense of the gap between the individual\u2019s limited resources and society\u2019s overall unlimited opportunities for consumption. The transition from \u201cmodernity\u201d to \u201clate modernity\u201d<sup>1<\/sup> is said to cause major changes in our sense of safety. In the same vein, the increasing commodification of security (by proliferation of a market for personal security products and services) is fed by fear of crime, in a process that mass media has had a role to play. When an individual reads a newspaper and identifies with the described victim, then the image of risk may be taken up, personalized, and translated into personal safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Giddens, A. (1991, pp. 70-88). <em>Modernity and self-identity: self and society in the late modern age<\/em>. Cambridge: Polity Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P840TR-be","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/696\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu-bis.sys.kth.se\/safeplaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}