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1019217
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b773587
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| Title & Author
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Cultures of fear : : a critical reader /\ edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York, NY :: Pluto Press,, 2009.
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| Series Statement
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Anthropology, culture, and society
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1 online resource (x, 345 pages)
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| ISBN
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1849644322
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: 9781849644327
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0745329659
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0745329667
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9780745329659
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9780745329666
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Terrorism-- Social aspects.
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War and society.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009-- Psychological aspects.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009-- Social aspects.
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Kriegsverbrechen
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Peace.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Terrorism.
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Politische Verfolgung
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Psychological aspects.
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Social aspects.
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Terrorism-- Social aspects.
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War and society.
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Krieg.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.66
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| LC Classification
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HM554.C85 2009eb
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| Added Entry
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Linke, Uli
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Smith, Danielle Taana
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