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Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope : Depoliticisation and Resistance in a Time of Terror.
Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope is about the relationship between two hugely influential ideas in political life: fear and hope . How are cultures of resistance nurtured within an environment of paranoia and social paralysis? Stefan Skrimshire argues that grass-roots responses to a politics of f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2008.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in religion and political culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope is about the relationship between two hugely influential ideas in political life: fear and hope . How are cultures of resistance nurtured within an environment of paranoia and social paralysis? Stefan Skrimshire argues that grass-roots responses to a politics of fear coincide with an explosion of interest in the quasi-religious themes of apocalypse, eschatology and utopia in cultural life. Where visions of a better future are replaced by the acceptance of a fearful present - a state of 'war with no end' - this is an important examination of the beliefs that. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781441114709 144111470X |