Discourses and Practices of Terrorism

Interrogating Terror
Herausgeber: Brecher, Bob; Winter, Aaron; Devenney, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415488082
• ISBN-10: 0415488087
• Artikelnr.: 26867732

Autorenporträt

Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at Brighton University. He has published widely in moral, political and applied philosophy and the politics of higher education. Mark Devenney is Academic Programme Leader in Humanities at the University of Brighton. He has published in the areas of critical theory, post-Marxism and post-colonial politics. Aaron Winter is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. His research focuses on terrorism and the concept of 'extremism', whiteness, masculinity and violence, and the extreme right, organised racism and the religious right in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Philosophy, Politics, Terror Bob Brecher and Mark Devenney
2. Rediscovering the Individual in the "War on Terror": a Virtue and
Liberal Approach Heather Widdows 3. Is there a Justifiable Shoot-to-Kill
Policy? Shahrar Ali 4. Torture and the Demise of the Justiciable Standard
of Enlightened Government: A S Perspective Don Wallace and Akis Kalaitzidis
5. Asylum and the Discourse of Terror: the European "Security state" Fran
Cetti 6. Feeling Persecuted? The Definitive Role of Paranoid Anxiety in the
Constitution of "War on Terror" Television Hugh Ortega Breton 7.
Fundamentalist Foundations of Terrorist Practice:the Political Logic of
Life-Sacrifice Jeff Noonan 8. Specificities, Complexities, Histories:
Algerian Politics and George Bush's USA-led "War on Terror" Martin Evans
9. Ignatieff, Ireland and the Lesser Evil: Some Problems with the Lessons
Learnt Mark McGovern 10. American Terror: from Oklahoma City to 9/11 and
After Aaron Winter. Bibliography