International Journal of Fear Studies
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International Journal of Fear Studies is an open-access peer-reviewed online journal. IJFS was founded in 2018 by R. Michael Fisher, Ph.D. (Sen. Editor).
Its purpose is to promote the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of fear. It is the first journal of its kind with a focus on the nature and role of fear and on innovations in methodologies, pedagogies and research inquiries that expand the fear imaginary beyond what is commonly assumed as how best to know and manage fear.
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Item Open Access International Journal of Fear Studies, Volume 1 (1), 2019: Interdisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Approaches(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-03-12) Fisher, R. MichaelItem Open Access Artist (front cover) backstory(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Barnesmoore, LukeItem Open Access Courage/couragelessness: Rethinking the fear/fearlessness dialectic(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Barnesmoore, Luke; Fisher, R. MichaelThe net of problems of injustice in the world, past, present and in the oncoming future-present are characteristically rooted in the many and varied contextual manifestations of the superiority-supremacism form. In search of the metaphysical pathology hidden by the banal invisibility of Western thought (worldview/ideologies) for Western subjects, the authors critically recognize, conceptualize and unveil the superiority-supremacism form, the conflation of dualistic and nondualistic phenomena, and the all too common synthesis of superiority-supremacism and the conflation of dualistic/nondualistic phenomena that form an essential aspect of the Colonial Modernist Worldview (C.M. Worldview ; see Barnesmoore 2018) as a critique of Western knowledge and conceptions of human history manufactured therein.Item Open Access A Sea of Future Feelings(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Kalu, Osinakachi AkumaItem Open Access (Senior) Editorial: Introuducing IJFS, a new journal.(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Fisher, R. MichaelAny research on the term 'fear studies' in a university library will turn up a few uses of this term as mostly a loose aggregate term to identify more than one fear study (e.g., Mechias, Etkin & Kalisch, 2010). The studies listed by those using the term are all disciplinary, meaning, psychological- and/or biological-based with a strong emphasis on positivism and traditional views of empiricism (e.g., quantitative measurement as 'truth'). In this disciplinary regime, fear is treated (and imagined) as a feeling and/or emotion. Dictionaries and encyclopedias, as well as common everyday speech reinforces this meaning of (definition) of fear. At least, in the English version of translation of 'fear,' of which I can only claim to have access to understanding because of my own limited views as an English-speaker. IJFS is beginning with that linguistic (and cultural) limitation as well.Item Open Access Fearlessness(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Hanson, JimItem Open Access Intuitions on fear classification: Introducing fearotypes & other musings(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Eales, MarkDespite the pervasive nature of fear in human life, there is a distinct lack of exploration or emphasis in scholarly or colloquial discourse on fear, that arguably inhibits the ability to overcome its holistic and often detrimental effects. Inspired by R. Michael Fisher (Fearology) and Desh Subba (Fearism), whom are attempting serious scholarly work on the subject of fear, this article represents a stream of consciousness from the very provisional musings of a layperson in an attempt to make sense of the world from a purely intuitive position, while working on the premise that fear should be the overriding issue of humanity to address and the focal point of any future revolution. The author explores some key ideas from in their earliest conception, most notably Fearotypes; a potential way to classify people's common responses to fear to help initiate the process of highlighting the ubiquity of fear in human life. With sincere care for others and the world expressed, the author communicates a longing for a revolution so that humans might, as a species, begin to realise their incredible potential. This paper represents the author's own beginning and small contribution to that revolution. The revolution speculated to be the most important throughout history, in any present or any future: that is, the revolution against fear based life.Item Open Access Mythical seductions & diversions: A dialogue, with fear.(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Kumar, B. Maria; Fisher, R. Michael[Note: The authors, Kumar (India) and Fisher (Canada) have been in dialogue on the topic of fear and fearlessness for over two years. Their first book together (with Desh Subba from Nepal, now living in Hong Kong) originated from a series of email dialogues, then published on the Fearlessness Movement ning, which were initiated by Fisher; see Fear, Law and Criminology: Critical Issues in Applying the Philosophy of Fearism, Xlibris 2018]Item Open Access Fake news, paradigm of fear & sustainability: Research report on climate fear(s).(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Bell, SimonNews manipulation is now a much-discussed reality of the 21st century media ethics. Daniel Khaneman has identified that people have a tendency to respond to complex issues in a problematic manner--often making use of instincts (System 1 or S!) in kneee jerk responses when a more rational (Systems 2 or S2) approach might be more appropriate. Simply put, human beings have a flawed process for problem structuring. In research carried out between 2015-16 with people engaged in and concerned with climate change....Item Open Access Fearontology musings: Work in progress.(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019) Kalu, Osinakachi Akuma[Editor's Note: The material for this article was originally created from a few blogs Kalu published on the Fearlessness Movement ning in the last year, and from rough notes he had sent to me for a potential article he wished to co-write but wasn't going to get to it for some time, as many other life-priorities took over. I offered to put some 'musings' together playfully, and at times slightly edit things for him. He had final edit of the excerpts below, and submitted them to IJFS]Item Open Access Artist (front cover) backstory(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Morrison, HallieItem Open Access International Journal of Fear Studies, Volume 1 (2), 2019: Interdisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Approaches(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Fisher, R. MichaelItem Open Access Nomadic Wandering Through the Desire for Fear: We Know We Must Be Reborn(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Moore, Karen E.; Barnesmoore, Luke R.Item Open Access The Love and Fear Problem: A Response to Michael Bassey Eneyo(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Fisher, R. MichaelThe purpose of this article is to engage the critiques of Michael Bassey Eneyo's views of the philosophy of fearism (a la Desh Subba and R. Michael Fisher). Eneyo is invited to respond to this and Fisher will respond to it. All others who wish to respond to this exchange between Fisher and Eneyo are welcome to send in their contributions of which are potentially publishable in future issues of the International Journal of Fear Studies. Fisher makes the case that Eneyo has not fully owned his own disciplinarity in shaping his work as a philosopher of fear, and his own Christianity privileging of a faith in love; and thus, when he compares and contrasts his claims with Fisher (and somewhat with Subba's philosophy of fearism) this leads to inevitable tensions and clashes. Fisher offers several creative and productive routes for ways of improving how to work with his own views, with fearism, and those of others, especially the new breed of serious and respectable philosophers of fear, like Eneyo. The ultimate goal is to improve awareness in the 'fear territory' (a la Eneyo) and its embedded philosophical, theoretical and practical applications to fear management/education.Item Open Access Book Review: Indigenous Perspective on Four Arrows' Book Point of Departure(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) RafiqItem Open Access New Fear Vocabulary(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Fisher, R. MichaelWhat is fear?' This common question for most everyone who is interested in fear, usually starts the conversation of meaning by searching for a definition. Typically, these days especially, the reductionism of such a definition of fear is usually to say it is an emotion or feeling, then to claim it is found in the amygdala of the brain, and further the scientific approach wants to capture and control and delimit what fear is and what fear isn’t. Such a long traditional and even current approach has always seemed to me to be far too restrictive and distortive of what is going on when humans talk about fear, imagine fear and attempt to manage fear. I and others herein, especially from the field of fearism (i.e., philosophy of fearism), have not been content with the traditional reductionistic approaches to the topic of fear. We have asked larger questions, beyond merely the scientific way of framing the problem of fear, and have found we are better off to be creative and expansive, as well as include the scientific and retractive, and to re-imagine critically the very way humans perceive, conceive and reproduce knowledge-power about fear. 'What is fear knowledge?' has been a much more important question in my own research. A new vocabulary is required to tap-in to that exploration.Item Open Access The Song of Fear: Poem(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Kumar, B. MariaItem Open Access (Senior) Editorial: Path of Many Twists(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Fisher, R. MichaelItem Open Access Genesis of meaning' and it's realm: Engaging Derrida(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Subba, DeshItem Open Access Fear of Power: Poem(In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, 2019-09-27) Kumar, B. Maria