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Title Discourses and practices of terrorism : interrogating terror / edited by Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney and Aaron Winter
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages)
Series Critical terrorism studies
Critical terrorism studies.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Philosophy, politics, terror; 2 Rediscovering the individual in the 'war on terror': A virtue and liberal approach; 3 Is there a justifiable shoot-to-kill policy?; 4 Torture and the demise of the justiciable standard of enlightened government: A US perspective; 5 Asylum and the discourse of terror: The European 'security state'; 6 Feeling persecuted?: The definitive role of paranoid anxiety in the constitution of 'war on terror' television
Summary Investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Terrorism -- Case studies
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
Terrorism
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Brecher, Bob.
Devenney, Mark, 1968-
Winter, Aaron.
ISBN 9780203857342
0203857348
9781135156497
1135156492