Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism" / Lisa Stampnitzky.

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Stampnitzky, Lisa [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781107341814
1107341817
9781139208161
1139208160
1107345561
9781107345560
9781107236615
1107236614
9781107348066
1107348064
1107349117
9781107349117
9781107697348
1107697344
1107357683
9781107357686

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disciplining terror.DDC classification:

363.325 23

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HV6431 .S69 2013eb

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Contents:

The invention of terrorism and the rise of the terrorism expert -- From insurgents to terrorists : experts, rational knowledge, and irrational subjects -- Disasters, diplomats, and databases : rationalization and its discontents -- Terrorism fever : the first war on terror and the politicization of expertise -- Loose can(n)onts : from small wars to the new terrorism -- The road to pre-emption -- The politics of (anti- )knowledge : disciplining terrorism after 9/11 -- The trouble with experts.

Summary: Examines how political violence became 'terrorism', and how this transformation ultimately led to the current 'war on terror'.

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Examines how political violence became 'terrorism', and how this transformation ultimately led to the current 'war on terror'.

English.

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