The global grapevine
Subtitle: why rumors of terrorism, immigration, and trade matter
By: Gary Alan Fine, Bill Ellis.
Contributors: Ellis, Bill, 1950-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199736317
Subjects: Rumor; Globalization -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: rumor: plausible and credible; title: Rumor and September 11th: understanding the unthinkable; title: A riot of conspiracies; title: Migrants: disease in the body politics; title: "There goes the neighborhood": Latino migrants and immigration rumors; title: Tourist troubles: the travels of global rumor; title: The menace of international trade; title: Global trafficking in bodies; title: Whispers on the borderline.