Cultures of Fear - A Critical Reader

Informationen zum Autor Uli Linke is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology in the US. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear . Danielle Taana Smith is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at RIT. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear (Pluto, 2009). Klappentext In "Cultures of Fear!" a truly world-class line up of scholars explore how governments use fear in order to control their citizens. The "social contract" gives modern states responsibility for the security of their citizens! but this collection argues that governments often nurture a culture of fear within their contries. When people are scared of "terrorist" threats! or "alarming rises" in violent crime they are more likely to accept oppressive laws from their rulers. "Cultures of Fear" is and interdisciplinary reader for students of anthropology and politics. Contributors include Noam Chomsky! Slavoj Zizek! Jean Baudrillard! Catharine MacKinnon! Neil Smith! Cynthia Enloe! David L. Altheide! Cynthia Cockburn and Carolyn Nordstrum. Zusammenfassung Chomsky! Zizek! Sontag and other scholars show how governments exploit people's fear for political gain

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• Authors: Uli (Rochester Institute of Technology) Smi Linke, Uli Smith Linke
• Assisted by: Uli Linke (Editor), Uli (Rochester Institute of Technology) Linke (Editor), Danielle Taana Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2009
• EAN: 9780745329666
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2966-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci; Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education