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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Interrogating the war on terror. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2007 (OCoLC)654611799 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah Staines |
| ISBN: | 9781847181305 1847181309 |
| OCLC Number: | 85898398 |
| Description: | xiv, 258 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Interrogating the "war on terror" paradigm / Deborah Staines -- Part I. Counter-discourses -- Terror : from the armada to Al-Qaeda / Peter Caws -- Reading neocon rhetoric : Walt Whitman and the war on terror / Joan Kirkby -- On the genealogy of terrorism / Michael Blain -- Speech acts, torture acts / Nina Philadelphoff-Puren -- Terrible terror : security, violence and democracy in the "war on terrorism" / Saul Newman and Michael P. Levine -- Autonomy and terror / Kimberley Brownlee -- Part II. Cultural effects -- Images from No Exit / George Gittoes -- Horrified : embodied vision, media affect and the images from Abu Ghraib / Anna Gibbs -- Terror TV : challenging the terror paradigm in post-9/11 U.S. entertainment programming / Stacy Takacs -- Letters to Betty Ong : reading the Internet archives of 9/11 memorialisation / Deborah Staines -- Transforming the Bhuta Kala : the Bali bombings and Indonesian civil society / Jeff Lewis and Belinda Lewis -- Defining terrorism to protect human rights / Ben Saul. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Deborah Staines. |
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"This collection is a brilliant contribution to the burgeoning literature on the "war on terror". Thoughtful, poignant, and elegantly constructed, the authors offer fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the most important questions of our times. From start to finish, I was enthralled. Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London What kind of imagination, what sort of reasoning made possible the proclamation of a "war on terror" so vaguely defined that it could never end? Without condescension or self-righteousness, the essays in this book look for answers to the catastrophe of US foreign policy as it responded to the events of 9/11. This is rhetorical analysis at its most persuasive: passionate, eloquent, deadly serious, and seeking hard to make sense of a counter-terror that mirrors its opponent. John Frow, University of Melbourne" Read more...