Cultures of fear : a critical reader / / edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith.

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Superior document:Anthropology, culture, and society
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Physical Description:x, 345 p.
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Table of 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.