03455oam 2200685I 450 991081974880332120200520144314.01-135-15650-61-282-57132-X97866125713290-203-85734-810.4324/9780203857342 (CKB)2670000000009217(EBL)481027(OCoLC)610212092(SSID)ssj0000358933(PQKBManifestationID)11269246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358933(PQKBWorkID)10381720(PQKB)11118479(MiAaPQ)EBC481027(Au-PeEL)EBL481027(CaPaEBR)ebr10371565(CaONFJC)MIL257132(PPN)19845757X(EXLCZ)99267000000000921720180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiscourses and practices of terrorism interrogating terror /edited by Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney and Aaron WinterLondon ;New York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (208 p.)Critical terrorism studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-87366-7 0-415-48808-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Philosophy, politics, terror; 2 Rediscovering the individual in the 'war on terror': A virtue and liberal approach; 3 Is there a justifiable shoot-to-kill policy?; 4 Torture and the demise of the justiciable standard of enlightened government: A US perspective; 5 Asylum and the discourse of terror: The European 'security state'; 6 Feeling persecuted?: The definitive role of paranoid anxiety in the constitution of 'war on terror' television7 Fundamentalist foundations of terrorist practice: The political logic of life-sacrifice8 Specificities, complexities, histories: Algerian politics and George Bush's USA-led 'war on terror'; 9 Ignatieff, Ireland and the 'lesser evil': Some problems with the lessons learnt; 10 American terror: From Oklahoma City to 9/11 and after; Bibliography; IndexThis interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring certain sorts of response, or argue, equally simplistically, that the invocation of terror is merely the ideological veil for continued capitalist exploitation. While closer in spirit to the second of these, this work does not simply dismiss the discourse on terror, but rather investigatesCritical terrorism studies.TerrorismCase studiesWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009TerrorismWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009.303.625363.325Brecher Bob1675408Devenney Mark1968-1675409Winter Aaron1624472MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819748803321Discourses and practices of terrorism4040850UNINA