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Author Stampnitzky, Lisa, author.

Title Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism" / Lisa Stampnitzky
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : illustrations
Contents The invention of terrorism and the rise of the terrorism expert -- From insurgents to terrorists : experts, rational knowledge, and irrational subjects -- Disasters, diplomats, and databases : rationalization and its discontents -- Terrorism fever : the first war on terror and the politicization of expertise -- Loose can(n)onts : from small wars to the new terrorism -- The road to pre-emption -- The politics of (anti- )knowledge : disciplining terrorism after 9/11 -- The trouble with experts
Summary Examines how political violence became 'terrorism', and how this transformation ultimately led to the current 'war on terror'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Terrorism.
Terrorism -- Study and teaching -- History
Terrorism -- Research -- History
terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
Terrorism
Terrorism -- Research
Terrorism -- Study and teaching
Society.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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