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Titolo: | Exceptional state : contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism / / edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller |
Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.931 |
Soggetto topico: | Political culture - United States |
Popular culture - United States | |
Imperialism | |
Militarism - United States | |
Globalization - Political aspects - United States | |
Millennialism - Political aspects - United States | |
Imperialism in literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations 2001-2009 |
United States Civilization 1970- | |
United States Military policy | |
Altri autori: | DawsonAshley <1965-> SchuellerMalini Johar <1957-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : rethinking imperialism today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller -- Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease -- Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti -- Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour -- Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe -- Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller -- Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister -- Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson -- Coda : information mastery and the culture of annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Exceptional state |
ISBN: | 1-283-02311-3 |
9786613023117 | |
0-8223-8964-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810465303321 |
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