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Titolo: | Cultures of fear [[electronic resource] ] : a critical reader / / edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Pluto Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | x, 345 p |
Disciplina: | 303.66 |
Soggetto topico: | War and society |
Terrorism - Social aspects | |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Social aspects | |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Psychological aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | LinkeUli SmithDanielle Taana |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Fear: a conceptual framework / Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith -- Pt. 1: Culture of fear. The new war against terror / Noam Chomsky -- Engineering ruins and affect / Joseph Masco -- Terrorism and the politics of fear / David L. Altheide -- Welcome to the desert of the real! / Slavoi Žižek -- Pt. 2: States of terror. Human rights and complex emergencies / Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur -- Speechless emissaries / Liisa H. Malkki -- Trauma and vulnerability during war / Doug Henry -- The violence of humanitarianism / Miriam Ticktin -- Pt. 3: Zones of violence. Gender, terrorism, and war / Susan J. Brison -- The continuum of violence / Cynthia Cockburn -- Child soldiers: growing up in a guerrilla camp / Julia Dickson-Gómez -- Girls behind the (front) lines / Carolyn Nordstrom -- On the run: narrative of an asylum seeker / Solrun Williksen -- Pt. 4: Intimacies of suffering. War and sexual violence / Elisabeth Jean Wood -- Militarizing women's lives: when soldiers rape / Cynthia Enloe -- The political economy of violence: women during armed conflict in Uganda / Meredeth Turshen -- On the torture of others / Susan Sontag -- Pt. 5: Normalizing terror. Cultural appropriations of suffering / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman -- The biopolitics of disposability / Henry A. Giroux -- Empire of camps / Nicholas Mirzoeff. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Cultures of fear |
ISBN: | 1-78371-370-4 |
1-84964-432-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459147003321 |
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