Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism" - Stampnitzky, Lisa (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-226) and index.
Keywords: Terrorism; Terrorism -- Study and teaching -- History; Terrorism -- Research -- History; Terrorismus; Experte; Terrorism; Terrorism -- Research; Terrorism -- Study and teaching; History