Cultures of fear : a critical reader / / edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith
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| Titolo: |
Cultures of fear : a critical reader / / edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Pluto Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| Altri autori: |
LinkeUli
SmithDanielle Taana
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| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Chomsky, Zizek, Sontag and other scholars show how governments exploit people's fear for political gain. |
| 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.: | 9910818790803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Anthropology, culture, and society.