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Title Cultures of fear [electronic resource] : a critical reader / edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith.

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London ; New York : Pluto Press, 2009.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	x, 345 p.
Series	Anthropology, culture, and society
	Anthropology, culture, and society.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Zizek -- 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-Gomez -- 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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	War and society.
	Terrorism -- Social aspects.
	War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Social aspects.
	War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Linke, Uli.
	Smith, Danielle Taana.
	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	0745329667
	9780745329659 (pbk.)
	0745329659 (pbk.)
	9780745329666
	9781849644327 (electronic bk.)