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Cultures of fear : a critical reader /

In Cultures of Fear, a truly world-class line up of scholars explore the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism."Freedom from fear" is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Linke, Uli (Editor ), Smith, Danielle Taana (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Pluto Press, 2009.
Colección:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.