Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism" /
Lisa Stampnitzky.
- First paperback edition.
- xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-226) and index.
The invention of terrorism and the rise of the terrorism expert -- From insurgents to terrorists : experts, rational knowledge, and irrational subjects -- Disasters, diplomats, and databases : rationalization and its discontents -- Terrorism fever : the first war on terror and the politicization of expertise -- Loose can(n)ons : from small wars to the new terrorism -- The road to pre-emption -- The politics of (anti-)knowledge : disciplining terrorism after 9/11 -- The trouble with experts.
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Terrorism. Terrorism--Study and teaching--History. Terrorism--Research--History. Terrorismus. Experte. Terrorism. Terrorism--Research. Terrorism--Study and teaching.