ISBN:
9781849644327
,
1849644322
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 345 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Anthropology, culture, and society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cultures of fear
DDC:
303.66
Keywords:
Terrorism Social aspects
;
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Social aspects
;
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Psychological aspects
;
War and society
;
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Psychological aspects
;
Terrorism Social aspects
;
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Social aspects
;
Terrorism ; Social aspects
;
War and society
;
Kriegsverbrechen
;
Politische Verfolgung
;
Krieg
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Peace
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Terrorism
;
Psychological aspects
;
Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
In Cultures of Fear, a truly world-class line up of scholars explore the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism."Freedom from fear" is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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