Re-imagining the War on Terror : seeing, waiting, travelling / Andrew Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Andrew, 1974-

Series:

New security challenges series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Terrorism--United States--History--21st century.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--History--21st century.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Organised around the themes of seeing, waiting and travelling, this book presents an innovative reassessment of the War on Terror. Opening with the September 11 attacks and moving forward in time, each chapter focuses upon a different feature of this conflict, including Bin Laden's video appearances, Afghanistan, the Iraq War, hostage videos, the awaiting of forthcoming attacks, the imagining of distant places, extraordinary rendition, the unseen and processes of commemoration. Ranging across disciplinary concerns, and taking Lacan's work as its principal theoretical point of reference, Re-Imagining the War on Terror draws upon a diversity of material (from media coverage, to cinema, photography and contemporary art) to uncover aspects of the War on Terror often ignored in assessments of the conflict. In so doing Re-Imaging the War on Terror offers a distinctive re-imagining of a conflict that has defined the opening of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

September 11 2001 : spectacularity, the ruse, the blot

Acting out : Afghanistan, autumn 2001 and since

The Bin Laden tapes

"Shock & awe" : Iraq, spring 2003 and since

Endless waiting

Hostage videos : "scenes of slaughter"

Imagining Kabul

Phantoms and jails

The unseen

New York : a return.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-171) and index.

ISBN:

9780230200081

0230200087

OCLC:

237885562