Cultures of fear a critical reader / edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith.

Other author Linke, Uli.
Other author Smith, Danielle Taana.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Pluto Press,
Descriptionx, 345 p. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesAnthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society. ^A682721
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010280495
ISBN9780745329666
ISBN0745329667
ISBN9780745329659 (pbk.)
ISBN0745329659 (pbk.)

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