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Fear and Politics [Scribe Short Books].
by Lawrence, Carmen
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1920769870
- ISBN 13
- 9781920769871
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About This Item
Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2006. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, covers creased, pencil annotations, autograph (prominent person written name). 136 pp. Dr Carmen Lawrence (academic psychologist and former Labor premier, Western Australia, and Federal minister) argues that fear has been a crucial factor in shaping Australian public policy in recent years, and in Fear and Politics she charts its consequences on the Australian body politic. She discusses how xenophobia has shaped policies toward refugees, indigenous Australians, and Islamic fundamentalists, and examines the effects of being constantly warned about the risk of terrorism. She also looks at the sustained campaigns on law and order, and the exaggerated anxieties people now have of the risks of assault, murder, child abuse, and robbery. Dr Lawrence argues that fear can never provide a foundation of moral and political argument, and that the necessary antidote to the toxin of fear is a wholehearted embrace of the principles of freedom, equality, and co-operation. (Autograph of Geoff Gallop, former premier of Western Australia, plus his extensive pencil annotations to the text.).
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16633
- Title
- Fear and Politics [Scribe Short Books].
- Author
- Lawrence, Carmen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1920769870
- ISBN 13
- 9781920769871
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- australian government, politics, western australia, autograph
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- AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT;
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