Manufactured crises make publics grateful for state power that caused their anxiety

Evidence

As Richard Jackson puts it, constructing the supreme emergency “creates a situation of extreme crisis … where normal politics is suspended and where the usual checks and balances on the exercise of power can be dispensed with”—the idea being to produce a sense of paranoia where the public “feels grateful to the state for relieving an anxiety which was encouraged by officials in the first place.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 358

Categorization

• XREF: A useful analytic claim for reading post-9/11 West contexts — contrasts usefully with the manufacturing of terror-consent terrain in Naqvi’s narrator.