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BL
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1014845
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b769215
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Croft, Stuart.
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| Title & Author
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Culture, crisis and America's War on Terror /\ Stuart Croft.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0511246501
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: 0511247192
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: 0511318901
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: 0511607350
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: 6610702802
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: 9780511246500
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: 9780511247194
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: 9780511318900
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: 9780511607356
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: 9786610702800
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0511245033
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0521687330
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0521867991
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9780521687331
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9780521867993
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Disrupting meaning -- 2. Deconstructing the second American 9/11 -- 3. The decisive intervention -- 4. The institutionalisation and stabilisation of the policy programme -- 5. Acts of resistance to the 'war to terror' -- 6. The discourse strikes back -- 7. Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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"Since the infamous events of 9/11, the fear of terrorism and the determination to strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. The 'war on terror' discourse has developed not only through American politics but via other channels including the media, the church, music, novels, films and television, and therefore permeates many aspects of American life. Stuart Croft suggests that the process of this production of knowledge has created a very particular form of common sense which shapes relationships, jokes and even forms of tattoos. Understanding how a social process of crisis can be mapped out and how that process creates assumptions allows policy-making in America's war on terror to be examined from new perspectives. Using international relations approaches together with insights from cultural studies, this book develops a dynamic model of crisis which seeks to understand the war on terror as a cultural phenomenon."--Jacket.
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Terrorism-- Social aspects-- United States.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009-- Mass media and the war.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009-- Social aspects.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Mass media and war.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Terrorism.
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Politics and government.
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Social aspects.
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Social conditions.
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Terrorism-- Social aspects.
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United States, Foreign relations, 1989-
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United States, Politics and government, 2001-
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United States, Social conditions, 21st century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.3251
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| LC Classification
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HV6432.C76 2006eb
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