| Description |
1 online resource (x, 345 pages) |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture, and society |
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Contents |
Fear: a conceptual framework / Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith -- pt. 1: Culture of fear. The new war against terror / Noam Chomsky -- Engineering ruins and affect / Joseph Masco -- Terrorism and the politics of fear / David L. Altheide -- Welcome to the desert of the real! / Slavoi Žižek -- pt. 2: States of terror. Human rights and complex emergencies / Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur -- Speechless emissaries / Liisa H. Malkki -- Trauma and vulnerability during war / Doug Henry -- The violence of humanitarianism / Miriam Ticktin -- pt. 3: Zones of violence. Gender, terrorism, and war / Susan J. Brison -- The continuum of violence / Cynthia Cockburn -- Child soldiers: growing up in a guerrilla camp / Julia Dickson-Gómez -- Girls behind the (front) lines / Carolyn Nordstrom -- On the run: narrative of an asylum seeker / Solrun Williksen -- pt. 4: Intimacies of suffering. War and sexual violence / Elisabeth Jean Wood -- Militarizing women's lives: when soldiers rape / Cynthia Enloe -- The political economy of violence: women during armed conflict in Uganda / Meredeth Turshen -- On the torture of others / Susan Sontag -- pt. 5: Normalizing terror. Cultural appropriations of suffering / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman -- The biopolitics of disposability / Henry A. Giroux -- Empire of camps / Nicholas Mirzoeff |
| Summary |
In Cultures of Fear, a truly world-class line up of scholars explore the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism."Freedom from fear" is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Academic Library |
| Subject |
War and society.
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Terrorism -- Social aspects
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Social aspects
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Psychological aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Terrorism.
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Psychological aspects
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Social aspects
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Terrorism -- Social aspects
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War and society
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Kriegsverbrechen
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Politische Verfolgung
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Krieg
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Linke, Uli, editor.
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Smith, Danielle Taana, editor.
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| LC no. |
2010280495 |
| ISBN |
9781849644327 |
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1849644322 |
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9781783713707 |
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1783713704 |
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9781783713714 |
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1783713712 |
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