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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies |
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Critical terrorism studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Roots and cultures; 1 The rhetorical origins of the US war on terror; 2 Western responses to terrorism in the 1970s; 3 The power of terrorism frames: responses to non- Islamist lone- wolf terrorism in Europe; Part II Phenomenology; 4 Between insurrection and "reformism": public discourses of twenty- first century Greek armed groups; 5 When terrorists talk back |
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6 Plenty of oxygen: terrorism, news media and the politics of the Australian security state7 Jihadist terrorism in Europe: what role for media?; 8 Counterterrorism as contested terrain: performative contradictions and "autoimmune disorder"; Part III Anatomy; 9 The elusive essence of evil: constructing Otherness in the coalition of the willing; 10 The discourse on political Islam and the "War on Terror": roots, policy implications and potential for change; 11 The multiple contexts of Russian counterterrorism frames: the framing process and discursive field |
| Summary |
This book offers a multifaceted, analytical account of counterterrorism argumentative speech. Traditionally, existing scholarship in this field of research has taken a selective focus on issues and actors, concentrating mainly on US state discourse after 9/11. However, this approach ignores the fact that there was counterterrorism speech before 9/11, and that there are other countries and other actors who also actively engage in the counterterrorism discursive field, both within and outside of the Western world. Addressing several thematic, chronological and methodological gaps |
| Notes |
12 The hunter and the hunted: metaphors of pursuit, prey and the intractability of difference in post 9/11 American counterterrorism discourseIndex |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
International relations.
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Security, International.
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Terrorism -- Prevention.0
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international relations.
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International relations
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Security, International
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136179358 |
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1136179356 |
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