Language wars : the role of media and culture in global terror and political violence / / Jeff Lewis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826625603321
• Autore: Lewis Jeff <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-84964-463-2; 1-281-75094-8; 9786611750947; 1-4356-6264-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23014
• Soggetti: Mass media and language; Mass media and culture; Mass media and public opinion; Terrorism and mass media; Violence in mass media
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Terrorism and Language Wars -- The Mediation of Terror -- Culture and the Political Signifier -- Cultural Politics and Globalization -- Government, Democracy and the Mediasphere -- Structure and Methods -- Key Concepts -- 1 Mediated Terror and the Politics of Representation -- Terror -- Televisual Media and the Broadcast of Violence -- Representation and Violence -- The First Casualty: War and Truth -- Conclusions -- 2 Conflict and Culture: Civilization, History, Identity -- Culture and Islam -- The Clash of Civilizations Thesis -- The Media and Cultural Division -- Division and Identity Politics -- History and the Roots of Islam -- Modernization and Civil Society in the Middle East -- Palestine and the 'Jewish Question' -- The Body Politic: Interface with Globalization -- Interdependence and the Formation of the Cultural Divide -- Conclusions -- 3 The Meaning of 9/ 11: In the Midst of Infi nite Justice -- Meaning and the Aesthetics of Terror -- Divine Justice: Global Order -- Citizens, Consensus and Dissent -- Hero - Victims -- Public Opinion and the Not- Quite- Real ; -- The Meaning of America and the Twin Towers -- Freedom -- Surveillance and Control -- Conclusions -- 4 The Iraq Invasion: Democracy in the Field of Battle -- The Purposes of War -- From Freedom to Democracy -- Coalitions of the Killing -- Democracy in the Age of Terror -- The Electronic Polis -- Bomb the World -- In Bed with al- Qa'ida -- Al- Jazeera and the Alternative Media -- Conclusions -- 5 Globalizing Jihad: The Bali Bombings at the End of Paradise -- October 12 and Global Jihad -- Jamaah Islamiyah -- Paradise Defi led -- Clash of Imaginings: Global and National Context -- The Crisis of Contiguity -- The Bombings: Media and Political Discourses -- The Blind Puppeteer: Atrocity and Civil Society in Indonesia.; Development and Recovery in Bali -- Conclusions -- 6 The Occupation of Iraq: Rule of Law and the New Public Sphere -- Resolution -- The First Casualty: David Kelly and Trial by Ordeal -- The New Iraq -- Privatization and Occupation -- Ordeal and Execution -- Al- Jazeera and the Rule of Law -- Images of Violence: Photographs and the Transformative Public Sphere -- Ordeals at Abu Ghraib -- The Body Politic and Abu Ghraib -- Theatre of War -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: Cultural Democracy, Difference and the End of Civilization -- Language Wars Here and Over There -- Democracy and Global Culture -- The Hijab and Global Politics -- World Government: Beware the Faithful -- References -- Index.