Cultures of fear
Subtitle: a critical reader
By: edited by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith
Contributors: ebrary, Inc
Series: Anthropology, culture, and society
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780745329659; 9780745329666; 9781849644327
Subjects: War and society; Social aspects; Terrorism; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Table of contents: title: Fear: a conceptual framework / Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith; title: Pt. 1: Culture of fear. The new war against terror / Noam Chomsky; title: Engineering ruins and affect / Joseph Masco; title: Terrorism and the politics of fear / David L. Altheide; title: Welcome to the desert of the real! / Slavoi Žižek; title: Pt. 2: States of terror. Human rights and complex emergencies / Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur; title: Speechless emissaries / Liisa H. Malkki; title: Trauma and vulnerability during war / Doug Henry; title: The violence of humanitarianism / Miriam Ticktin; title: Pt. 3: Zones of violence. Gender, terrorism, and war / Susan J. Brison; title: The continuum of violence / Cynthia Cockburn; title: Child soldiers: growing up in a guerrilla camp / Julia Dickson-Gómez; title: Girls behind the (front) lines / Carolyn Nordstrom; title: On the run: narrative of an asylum seeker / Solrun Williksen; title: Pt. 4: Intimacies of suffering. War and sexual violence / Elisabeth Jean Wood; title: Militarizing women's lives: when soldiers rape / Cynthia Enloe; title: The political economy of violence: women during armed conflict in Uganda / Meredeth Turshen; title: On the torture of others / Susan Sontag; title: Pt. 5: Normalizing terror. Cultural appropriations of suffering / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman; title: The biopolitics of disposability / Henry A. Giroux; title: Empire of camps / Nicholas Mirzoeff.