Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism" / Lisa Stampnitzky.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107697348 (pbk.)
  • 1107697344 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV 6431 .S69 2014
Contents:
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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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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