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Disciplining Terror - How Experts Invented ''Terrorism''

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Informationen zum Autor Lisa Stampnitzky is Lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, Ohio State University and the European University Institute. Klappentext Examines how political violence became 'terrorism', and how this transformation ultimately led to the current 'war on terror'. Zusammenfassung 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'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The invention of terrorism and the rise of the terrorism expert; 3. From insurgents to terrorists: experts, rational knowledge, and irrational subjects; 4. Disasters, diplomats, and databases: rationalization and its discontents; 5. 'Terrorism fever': the first war on terror and the politicization of expertise; 6. Loose can(n)ons: from 'small wars' to the 'new terrorism'; 7. The road to pre-emption; 8. The politics of (anti)knowledge: disciplining terrorism after 9/11; 9. Conclusion: the trouble with experts.

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Authors Lisa Stampnitzky, Lisa (Harvard University Stampnitzky, Stampnitzky Lisa
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 18.04.2013
 
EAN 9781107026636
ISBN 978-1-107-02663-6
No. of pages 246
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Terrorism, armed struggle, Comparative Politics

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