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Author : Leonardo Alberto Salazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
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:
Author : Richard Jackson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719071218
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Writing the War on Terrorism written by Richard Jackson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the language of the war on terrorism and is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the Bush administration's approach to counter-terrorism became the dominant policy paradigm in American politics today.
Author : Jared Del Rosso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539495
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Talking About Torture written by Jared Del Rosso and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantánamo as a model prison, and dismissed the illegality of the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation." By the end of the Bush administration, members of both major congressional parties had come to denounce enhanced interrogation as torture and argue for the closing of Guantánamo. What initiated this shift? In Talking About Torture, Jared Del Rosso reviews transcripts from congressional hearings and scholarship on denial, torture, and state violence to document this wholesale change in rhetoric and attitude toward the use of torture by the CIA and the U.S. military during the War on Terror. He plots the evolution of the "torture issue" in U.S. politics and its manipulation by politicians to serve various ends. Most important, Talking About Torture integrates into the debate about torture the testimony of those who suffered under American interrogation practices and demonstrates how the conversation continues to influence current counterterrorism policies, such as the reliance on drones.
Author : Michael C. Frank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134837364
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
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.
Author : Reed Brody
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896083127
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Contra Terror in Nicaragua written by Reed Brody and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the policies of torture, murder, and wanton violence employed by the forces Reagan described as the moral equivalents of our Founding Fathers.
Author : Charles Townshend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198809093
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Terrorism written by Charles Townshend and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'war against terrorism'? In this fully updated edition, Charles Townshend unravels the questions at the heart of the problem of terrorism - its causes, methods, effects, and limitations - suggesting that it must be understood as a political strategy whose threat can be rationally grasped and answered"--Publisher's description.
Author : Natalia Starostina
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878766
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Between Memory and Mythology written by Natalia Starostina and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the theoretical insights of Patrick Hutton, Roland Barthes and Maurice Halbwachs, this volume examines the relationship between myths and memory and the ways in which the narratives (and the mythologies) of wars play a central role in constructing modern identities. The scholarly examination of war narratives shows how the political elite became eagerly engaged in the process of mythmaking. The collection opens with a preface by Patrick Hutton, the leading historian in the field o ...
Author : Roger Craft Peace
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 1558499326
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)
Download or read book A Call to Conscience written by Roger Craft Peace and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as "contras." Believing the Contra War to be unnecessary, immoral, and illegal, they challenged the administration's Cold War stereotypes, warned of "another Vietnam," and called on the United States to abide by international norms. A Call to Conscience offers the first comprehensive history of the anti?Contra War campaign and its Nicaragua connections. Roger Peace places this eight-year campaign in the context of previous American interventions in Latin America, the Cold War, and other grassroots oppositional movements. Based on interviews with American and Nicaraguan citizens and leaders, archival records of activist organizations, and official government documents, this book reveals activist motivations, analyzes the organizational dynamics of the anti?Contra War campaign, and contrasts perceptions of the campaign in Managua and Washington. Peace shows how a variety of civic groups and networks?religious, leftist, peace, veteran, labor, women's rights?worked together in a decentralized campaign that involved extensive transnational cooperation.
Author : Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154717X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Genealogies of Terrorism written by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is terrorism? What ought we to do about it? And why is it wrong? We think we have clear answers to these questions. But acts of violence, like U.S. drone strikes that indiscriminately kill civilians, and mass shootings that become terrorist attacks when suspects are identified as Muslim, suggest that definitions of terrorism are always contested. In Genealogies of Terrorism, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. The result is a powerful critique of the power relations that shape how we understand and theorize political violence. Tracing discourses and practices of terrorism from the French Revolution to late imperial Russia, colonized Algeria, and the post-9/11 United States, Erlenbusch-Anderson examines what we do when we name something terrorism. She offers an important corrective to attempts to develop universal definitions that assure semantic consistency and provide normative certainty, showing that terrorism means many different things and serves a wide range of political purposes. In the tradition of Michel Foucault’s genealogies, Erlenbusch-Anderson excavates the history of conceptual and practical uses of terrorism and maps the historically contingent political and material conditions that shape their emergence. She analyzes the power relations that make different modes of understanding terrorism possible and reveals their complicity in justifying the exercise of sovereign power in the name of defending the nation, class, or humanity against the terrorist enemy. Offering an engaged critique of terrorism and the mechanisms of social and political exclusion that it enables, Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.
Author : Michael Blain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131707680X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror written by Michael Blain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending concepts from 'dramatism' such as 'victimage ritual' with Foucault's approach to modern power and knowledge regimes, this book presents a novel and illuminating perspective on political power and domination resulting from the global war on terrorism. With attention to media sources and political discourse within the context of the global war on terror, the author draws attention to the manner in which power elites construct scapegoats by way of a victimage ritual, thus providing themselves with a political pretext for extending their power and authority over new territories and populations, as well as legitimating an intensification of domestic surveillance and social control. A compelling analysis of ritual rhetoric and political violence, Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror will be of interest to sociologists, political theorists and scholars of media and communication concerned with questions of surveillance and social control, political communication, hegemony, foreign policy and the war on terror.
Author : Bethami A. Dobkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313066019
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Tales of Terror written by Bethami A. Dobkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-04-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional research suggests that news coverage of terrorism is a tool of the terrorist to gain public support and recognition. Based on an analysis of more than 200 evening newscasts aired during the first six years of the Reagan administration, Tales of Terror offers a detailed account of the ways in which news media escalate public panic about terrorism and encourage support for specific U.S. policy objectives, rather than build sympathy for terrorists. Bethami Dobkin explores similarities between news media and government portrayals of terrorism, combining textual criticism with an interpretation of official U.S. policy statements, and argues that government depictions and news presentations of terrorism reproduce an ideology that supports military strength and intervention. Dobkin examines several specific features of news coverage: the dramatic format of television news and the political interests that this format serves; the narrative construction of enemies by television journalists and public officials and the political significance of the terrorist label; the use and significance of testimony, particularly that of people affected by crisis; the mutual exploitation of political crisis by both television news producers and public officials; the function of journalism in shaping the conduct of public diplomacy and public perceptions of foreign conflict; and the creation of consensus about the need for military responses to political violence. This revealing study will be of particular interest to scholars of communications and political science.
Author : Ashok Antony D'Souza
Publisher : Niruta Publications
ISBN 13 : 8192342433
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Noam Chomsky's Discourse on Globalization and U.S.': Imperialism written by Ashok Antony D'Souza and published by Niruta Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noam Chomsky - a world renowned linguist, philosopher and outspoken critic of US foreign policy and the media - has consistently written and spoken about the dangers of the nexus between US imperialism and Neo-liberalism. This book explores if the experiences of 'social activists' in India corroborate major tenets of Chomsky's discourse on globalization and US imperialism. The work, although stems primarily from the area of professional social work, is interdisciplinary in nature and would be of interest to anyone interested in understanding the dynamics and politics of development in India.
Author : Michael Weiler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354077
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Reagan and Public Discourse in America written by Michael Weiler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-08-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors: J. Jeffery Auer, Jeff D. Bass, Jane Blankenship, Robert J. Branham, DeLysa Burnier, Robin Carter, David Descutner, G. Thomas Goodnight, James Jasinski, Deborah K. Johnson, Janette Kenner Muir, Catherine Helen Palczewski, W. Barnett Pearce, Michael Weiler, Marilyn J. Young
Author : Jez Littlewood
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487521707
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada written by Jez Littlewood and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada analyses the nature and scope of the terrorist threat, the challenge of Canadian foreign fighters and far-right extremism, key counterterrorism policies and practices, and their consequences for Canadian society.
Author : Christopher Baker-Beall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526100827
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
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.
Author : Lisa Stampnitzky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026636
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Disciplining Terror written by Lisa Stampnitzky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 9/11, we have been told that terrorists are pathological evildoers. Yet before the 1970s, hijackings, assassinations, and other acts now called 'terrorism' were considered the work of rational actors. Disciplining Terror explains how political violence became 'terrorism', and how this transformation ultimately led to the current 'war on terror'.
Author : Jeffrey L. Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419194
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Solidarity Under Siege written by Jeffrey L. Gould and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the rise and fall of the militant labor movement in modern El Salvador.
