This study examines, describes and conceptualises the politics of fear. Fear and politics are in many cases connected but the nature of their relation is often inaccurately explained. The aim in the study is to find and develop analytical tools for deeper understanding of the fragmented phenomenon of the politics of fear. This is done by combining different methods and theoretical approaches to discover the varieties but also to find comparable features which enable to achieve more holistic understanding.

The core of the research is constructed around Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge and genealogy including Sohail Inayatullah’s Causal Layered Analysis. The research is framed into the eventalized body where the fear and power relations are localised and made visible. Fear is argued here to be based on the understanding of causality which relates it to memory. In sociopolitical context the collective memory is constructed of different documents forming the representative and simulative reality which is set under the analysis.

The analysis is divided into the concepts of symbolic violence, the silence, breach in social reality and trauma which are seen as the constructing processes of the formation of the objects of fear. The study shows that the objects of fear are formed in interactive relations between the subject and the object which emerge in the context framed and interpret by the heritage as discursive practices, sign systems and symbolic exchange. Outcome of the power and resistance materialises in the human figure which is transformed it into the body of fear.