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Interrogating the war on terror : interdisciplinary perspectives
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Interrogating the war on terror : interdisciplinary perspectives

Author: Deborah Staines
Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
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Presents a multi-disciplinary critique of contemporary war culture and politics, introducing a range of political, legal, artistic and social perspectives on a devastating war. This volume explores  Read more...

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Interrogating the war on terror.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2007
(OCoLC)654611799
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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