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Record Nr.

UNISA996201645903316

Autore

Skoll G

Titolo

Social Theory of Fear [[electronic resource] ] : Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World / / by G. Skoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9780230112636

9780230103498

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Political science

Terrorism

Political violence

Globalization

Social sciences - Philosophy

Political sociology

Political Science

Terrorism and Political Violence

Political Theory

Social Theory

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Capitalism's Collapse -- Chapter 3 States and Social Control -- Chapter 4 Law and Terror -- Chapter 5 Terror, Law, and Torture -- Chapter 6 Camps, Gallows, Ghettos, Gulags, and Prisons -- Chapter 7 The Rise of the Icon -- Chapter 8 Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond -- Chapter 9 Resistance and the Fight against Repression -- Chapter 10 The Rebel -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the



capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is available Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence. Users are free to disseminate and reuse the ebook. The licence does not however permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission. To view a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0.