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Cultures of Fear : A Critical Reader.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology, Culture and Society SeriesPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849644327
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultures of FearDDC classification:
  • 303.66
LOC classification:
  • HM554.C85 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Preface -- 1. Fear: A Conceptual Framework by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith -- Part I: Cultures of Fear -- 2. The New War Against Terror by Noam Chomsky -- 4. Terrorism and the Politics of Fear by David L. Altheide -- 5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real!Slavoj Žižek -- Part II: States of Terror -- 6. Human Rights and Complex Emergencies by Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur -- 7. Speechless Emissaries by Liisa H. Malkki -- 8. Trauma and Vulnerability during War by Doug Henry -- 9. The Violence of Humanitarianism by Miriam Ticktin -- Part III: Zones of Violence -- 10. Gender, Terrorism, and War by Susan J. Brison -- 11. The Continuum of Violence by Cynthia Cockburn -- 12. Child Soldiers: Growing Up in a Guerilla Camp by Julia Dickson-Gómez -- 13. Girls Behind the (Front) Lines by Carolyn Nordstrom -- 14. On the Run: Narrative of an Asylum Seeker by Solrun Williksen -- Part IV: Intimacies of Suffering -- 15. War and Sexual Violence by Elisabeth Jean Wood -- 16. Militarizing Women's Lives: When Soldiers Rape by Cynthia Enloe -- 17. The Political Economy of Violence: Women during Armed Conflict in Uganda by Meredeth Turshen -- 18. Regarding the Torture of Others by Susan Sontag -- Part V: Normalizing Terror -- 19. Cultural Appropriations of Suffering by Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman -- 20. The Biopolitics of Disposability by Henry A. Giroux -- 21. Empire of Camps by Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Chomsky, Zizek, Sontag and other scholars show how governments exploit people's fear for political gain.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Preface -- 1. Fear: A Conceptual Framework by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith -- Part I: Cultures of Fear -- 2. The New War Against Terror by Noam Chomsky -- 4. Terrorism and the Politics of Fear by David L. Altheide -- 5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real!Slavoj Žižek -- Part II: States of Terror -- 6. Human Rights and Complex Emergencies by Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur -- 7. Speechless Emissaries by Liisa H. Malkki -- 8. Trauma and Vulnerability during War by Doug Henry -- 9. The Violence of Humanitarianism by Miriam Ticktin -- Part III: Zones of Violence -- 10. Gender, Terrorism, and War by Susan J. Brison -- 11. The Continuum of Violence by Cynthia Cockburn -- 12. Child Soldiers: Growing Up in a Guerilla Camp by Julia Dickson-Gómez -- 13. Girls Behind the (Front) Lines by Carolyn Nordstrom -- 14. On the Run: Narrative of an Asylum Seeker by Solrun Williksen -- Part IV: Intimacies of Suffering -- 15. War and Sexual Violence by Elisabeth Jean Wood -- 16. Militarizing Women's Lives: When Soldiers Rape by Cynthia Enloe -- 17. The Political Economy of Violence: Women during Armed Conflict in Uganda by Meredeth Turshen -- 18. Regarding the Torture of Others by Susan Sontag -- Part V: Normalizing Terror -- 19. Cultural Appropriations of Suffering by Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman -- 20. The Biopolitics of Disposability by Henry A. Giroux -- 21. Empire of Camps by Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Chomsky, Zizek, Sontag and other scholars show how governments exploit people's fear for political gain.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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