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Discourses and Practices of Terrorism

Author : Bob Brecher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135156492
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Discourses and Practices of Terrorism written by Bob Brecher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies. The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring certain sorts of response, or argue, equally simplistically, that the invocation of terror is merely the ideological veil for continued capitalist exploitation. While closer in spirit to the second of these, this work does not simply dismiss the discourse on terror, but rather investigates the consequences of this discourse for the organisation of life in democratic societies. In interrogating the discourse of terror from a variety of viewpoints, this interdisciplinary text builds upon the understanding of the importance of the language of terror from a new perspective: the interconnections between discourses of terror; the material realities they at once reflect and help produce; and the specificities of particular historical circumstances. In offering an integrated approach of this sort, and founded on a base of applied philosophy, broadly conceived, the contributors offer a new contribution to both public and academic debate, and at the same time initiate a series of further interventions in Critical Terrorism Studies. This book will be of interest to students of critical terrorism studies, terrorism studies, security studies, philosophy and discourse theory. Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics at Brighton University. He has published widely in moral, political and applied philosophy and the politics of higher education. Mark Devenney is Academic Programme Leader in Humanities at the University of Brighton. He has published in the areas of critical theory, post-Marxism and post-Colonial politics. Aaron Winter is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. His research focuses on terrorism and the concept of ‘extremism’, whiteness, masculinity and violence, and the extreme right, organised racism and the religious right in the United States.

The Discourse on Terrorism

Author : Michael Gold-Biss
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourse on Terrorism written by Michael Gold-Biss and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an inquiry into the constitution of -terrorism- through formal discourse from the vantage point of those who observe, study, describe and, especially, comment on it. This analysis presents an alternative understanding of terrorism, not based solely on the description of its presence nor the panacea-like remedies for confronting it. It is premised on the notion that terrorism is an essentially contested subject. The study is a critique of the orthodoxy, understood to be the demonization of armed oppositional violence in the form of terrorism."

Discourse, War and Terrorism

Author : Adam Hodges
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227140
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Discourse, War and Terrorism written by Adam Hodges and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the war on terror to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political, economic and social phenomena. Discourse, War and Terrorism explores the discursive production of identities, the shaping of ideologies, and the formation of collective understandings in response to 9/11 in the United States and around the world. At issue are how enemies are defined and identified, how political leaders and citizens react, and how members of societies understand their position in the world in relation to terrorism. Contributors to this volume represent diverse sub-fields involved in the critical study of language, including perspectives from sociocultural linguistics, communication, media, cultural and political studies.

Discourses and Practices of Terrorism

Author : Bob Brecher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135156506
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism

Author : O. Ditrych
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113739496X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism written by O. Ditrych and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique, historical study explores how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s and what effect these discourses have had on global politics. Ditrych's analysis challenges established understandings of terrorism, providing a new conceptualization of how terrorism discourse emerged historically.

Discourses on Terrorism and Nicaragua

Author : Leonardo Alberto Salazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Discourses on Terrorism and Nicaragua written by Leonardo Alberto Salazar and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The European Union's fight against terrorism

Author : Christopher Baker-Beall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526100827
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The European Union's fight against terrorism written by Christopher Baker-Beall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the language of the European Union's response to the threat of terrorism. Since its re-emergence in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the 'fight against terrorism' has come to represent a priority area of action for the EU. Drawing on interpretive approaches to international relations, the book outlines a discourse theory of identity and counter-terrorism policy, showing how the 'fight against terrorism' structures the EU's response through the prism of identity, drawing our attention to the various 'others' that have come to form the target of counter-terrorism policy. Through an extensive analysis of the wider societal impact of the 'fight against terrorism' discourse, the various ways in which this policy is contributing to the 'securitisation' of social and political life within Europe are revealed.

Detention of Terrorism Suspects

Author : Maureen T. Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509903993
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Detention of Terrorism Suspects written by Maureen T. Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language manufactures truth : the power of labels -- Breaking down and reconstructing discourse can reveal new realities -- Layers of argumentation tools and a fractured post-911 narrative -- Hasty inductive generalization : the problem with the claim that the 9/11 attacks exposed a need for new detention paradigms -- False premise : non-citizens as the terrorist "other?"--False dichotomies in the narrative : The "either/or" dilemma

Anti-terrorism Discourse and the War on Dissent

Author : Ghada Chehade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Anti-terrorism Discourse and the War on Dissent written by Ghada Chehade and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines the criminalization of dissent that is occurring through official anti-terrorism discourse (and associated policies) in Canada. While there is vast scholarly work on the war on terrorism and attendant anti-terrorism campaigns, research on the discourse of terrorism and anti-terrorism is urgently needed, not least because discourse is a key medium of power and social control. To date, very little research exists on Canadian anti-terrorism laws and the criminalization of dissent. By examining the Canadian context and focusing largely on policies, this dissertation adds two important dimensions to the critical study of the war on terrorism. Employing Critical Discourse Analysis, a methodology designed to expose the ideological effects of discourse, the study reveals the hidden power at work behind anti-terrorism discourse in Canada, and the processes by which it hides and reinforces itself. Through a multi-text, critical discourse analysis of official anti-terrorism documents (parliamentary speeches, anti-terrorism laws, and public police documents on terrorism), the research demonstrates how these documents, purportedly aimed at combating terrorism, discursively serve to criminalize particular types of dissent and opposition by conflating it with terrorism and/or terrorist violence. By deconstructing various discursive practices (i.e., Canadian anti-terrorism texts), the study's critical analysis uncovered the larger socio-historical practices, contexts, and interests that inform and guide these practices. The study employs leading CDA scholar Norman Fairclough's three-part analytic method (description, interpretation, analysis) to build a descriptive analytic base, which is then used to build and inform the other two levels of analysis. The novel analytic framework developed -- that of threat and threatened -- unifies the different texts as well as Fairclough's different stages of analysis. By critically examining who/what the texts construct as a threat and as threatened (i.e., as villain or victim), and how each category is constructed, the study sheds light on the power and interests behind Canadian anti-terrorism discourse. Analytically, the duality of threat and threatened constitutes a powerful motif that can be used descriptively, interpretively, and for larger explanation and social analysis. By uncovering who and what the anti-terrorism texts target, the research reveals who and what it actually serves to protect. Overall, the dissertation demonstrates that Canadian anti-terrorism discourse and associated policies ultimately protect the power and relations of global capitalism, by specifically targeting and criminalizing opposition and/or resistance to it. This has serious implications for civil liberties and political participation in Canada.In addition, the study is related to and informs the field of Educational Studies insofar as it expands the notion of "education" to include the ideological functions of public policy. The anti-terrorism laws and associated discourses illustrate the manner in which the Canadian State is engaged in a broader educational project aimed at shaping individuals' hearts and minds over how to interpret and understand what constitutes terrorism. One intention of anti-terrorism discourse and policy appears to be to "normalize" a particular way of thinking about both terrorism and dissent (in a manner that conflates the two), and thus promote public support for the war on terror abroad and war on dissent at home. " --

Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism

Author : O. Ditrych
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113739496X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies

Author : Alice E. Finden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003835287
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies written by Alice E. Finden and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book presents an intervention into methodological practices in the subfield of Critical Terrorism Studies, and features established and early career scholars. The volume interrogates the role that research methods play in shaping the sub-discipline of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS). It responds to two major methodological gaps within CTS: (1) the dearth of Global South cases and voices, and decolonial and feminist approaches; and (2) the lack of engagement with ‘traditional’ disciplines and quantitative methods. Together, authors demonstrate that interdisciplinary methodological dialogues can open up new possibilities for researchers seeking pathways towards and definitions of emancipation, social justice and freedom from violence. Simultaneously, the book shows that by focusing on the possibilities that methodologies open up to us and by maintaining a commitment to reflexive practice, we expand our understandings of what are ‘legitimate’ and ‘acceptable’ forms of research, thus challenging the Critical/Terrorism Studies divide. The chapters draw upon a wide range of empirical cases, including Nigeria, Kenya, France, Brazil and the UK, focusing on three key issues within Critical Terrorism Studies: its own relationship with and perpetuation of epistemic violence; decolonial, postcolonial, Global South, feminist and queer approaches; and more ‘traditional’ approaches and methods as a means to interrogate the methodological binary between Critical Terrorism Studies and Terrorism Studies. This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, counter-terrorism, security studies and International Relations in general.

Britain and Terrorism

Author : Michael Dunning
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030723003
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Britain and Terrorism written by Michael Dunning and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the use of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology, Michael Dunning explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two centuries, focusing on long-term processes and shifting power dynamics. In so doing, he demonstrates that terrorism as a concept and designation is entwined with its antithesis, civilization. A range of process sociological concepts are deployed to tease out the sociogenesis of terrorism as part of Britain’s relationships with France, Ireland, Germany, the Soviet Union, the industrial working classes, its colonies, and, most recently, jihadism. In keeping with the figurational tradition, Dunning examines the relationships between broad, macro-level processes and processes at the level of individual psyches, showing that terrorism is not merely a ‘thing’ done to a group, but part of a complex web of interdependent relations.

Clinton, New Terrorism and the Origins of the War on Terror

Author : Chin-Kuei Tsui
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317553527
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Clinton, New Terrorism and the Origins of the War on Terror written by Chin-Kuei Tsui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frequent assumption of the American-led ‘war on terror’ and its accompanying discourse originated largely with the George W. Bush Administration, and that there was a counterterrorism policy revolution in the U.S. political arena. Challenging these assumptions, through a genealogical analysis of U.S. terrorism and counterterrorism discourses, this book demonstrates a distinct continuity (and lack of change) of U.S. counterterrorism policy, from Ronald Reagan, to Bill Clinton, and through to George W. Bush. The book focuses on President Clinton’s discursive construction of ‘new terrorism’, or ‘catastrophic terrorism’, and the counterterrorism practices implemented by the Clinton Administration, while simultaneously comparing it with President Reagan’s and President George W. Bush’s approaches to counterterrorism. It shows how the war on terror can be traced to earlier periods, and that the so-called Bush revolution was largely built upon the existing framework established by President Reagan and President Clinton. Prior to the 2001 terrorist attacks, Clinton had expanded Reagan’s first ‘war on terrorism’ discourse and constructed the ‘new terrorism’ discourse, characterised by the notions of borderless threats, ‘home-grown’ terrorism, WMD-terrorism, cyberterrorism, and rogue states. Clinton’s ‘new terrorism’ discourse provided a useful framework for George W. Bush to discursively respond to the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Aiming to uncover the myth of President George W. Bush’s foreign policy revolution and contribute to a deeper historical understanding of the U.S.-led war on terror, it will be of great use to postgraduates and scholars of US foreign policy, security studies and terrorism studies.

Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China’s Uyghur Region

Author : Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100081887X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China’s Uyghur Region written by Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how Uyghur-related violent conflict and Uyghur ethnic minority identity, religion, and the Xinjiang region, more broadly, became constituted as a ‘terrorism’ problem for the Chinese state. Building on securitization theory, Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS), and the scholarly definitional debate on terrorism, it develops the concept of terroristization as a critical analytical framework for the study of historical processes of threat construction. Investigating the violent events reported in Xinjiang since the early 1980s, the evolving discursive patterns used by the Chinese state to make sense of violent incidents, and the crackdown policies that the official terrorism discourse has legitimized, the book demonstrates how the securitization, and later terroristization, of Xinjiang and the Uyghurs, is the result of a discursive and political choice of the Chinese state. The author reveals the contingent and unstable nature of such construction, and how it problematizes the inevitability of the rationale behind China’s ‘war on terror’, that has prescribed a brutal crackdown as the most viable approach to governing the tensions that have historically characterized China’s rule over the Turkic Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the politics of contemporary China, security and ethnic minority issues, International Relations and Security, as well as those adopting discursive approaches to the study of security, notably those within the critical security and terrorism studies fields.

The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film

Author : Michael C. Frank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134837364
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film written by Michael C. Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers, security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive boundary between the factual and the speculative can become difficult to discern. To elucidate this phenomenon, this book proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the single act of violence than it is the fact that this act is perceived to be the beginning, or part, of a potential series, and that further acts are expected to occur. As turn-of-the-century writers such as Stevenson and Conrad were the first to point out, this gives terror a fantastical dimension, a fact reinforced by the clandestine nature of both terrorist and counter-terrorist operations. Supported by contextual readings of selected texts and films from The Dynamiter and The Secret Agent through late-Victorian science fiction to post-9/11 novels and cinema, this study explores the complex interplay between actual incidents of political violence, the surrounding discourse, and fictional engagement with the issue to show how terrorism becomes an object of fantasy. Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism will be a valuable resource for those with interests in the areas of Literature and Film, Terrorism Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Trauma Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Terrorism and Narrative Practice

Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643800827
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Terrorism and Narrative Practice written by Thomas Austenfeld and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism as a factor of public life has generated far-reaching, and as yet underexplored, questions about narrative and representation. Different textual forms can investigate both the symbolic and the performative character of terroristic acts. Diverse literary traditions, ranging from countries of Eastern and Western Europe to North America and the Middle East, bring their respective historical imaginations to bear on such representations. The essays collected in this volume join together in a transdisciplinary effort to understand the role of narrative practice in all its varieties in approaching the phenomenon of terrorism, whether historical or contemporaneous. (Series: Swiss: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Vol. 7)

Critical Terrorism Studies

Author : Jacob L. Stump
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415620465
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Critical Terrorism Studies written by Jacob L. Stump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to critical approaches to terrorism studies. While there is a growing body of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) literature devoted to empirical examples and conceptual development, very little has been written about how to systematically carry out this kind of research. Critical Terrorism Studies fills this gap by addressing three key themes: The position of terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies in the discipline of International Relations (IR) Theoretical and methodological elaborations of critical approaches to the study of terrorism Empirical illustrations of those approaches. Drawing upon a range of engaging material, the volume reviews a series of non-variable based methodological approaches. It then goes on to provide empirical examples that illustrate how these approaches have been and can be utilized by students, teachers, and postgraduate researchers alike to critically and rigorously study terrorism. This textbook will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, sociology, critical security studies, and IR in general.