Cultures of Fear
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gender and war
human displacement
humanitarian disasters
NGOs
Noam Chomsky
rape
Slavoj Zizek
Sri Lanka
surveillance
Susan Sontag
war crimes
women in war
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- ISBN 9780745329666
- Weight: 534g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.
Freedom from fear is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However, this book shows that these organisations often use the same logic of fear to monitor, control, and contain human beings in zones of violence.
This is an excellent interdisciplinary reader for students of anthropology, sociology and politics. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek, Jean Baudrillard, Catharine MacKinnon, Neil Smith, Cynthia Enloe, David L. Altheide, Cynthia Cockburn and Carolyn Nordstrum.
Uli Linke is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology in the US. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear.
Danielle Taana Smith is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at RIT. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear (Pluto, 2009).
