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Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism" / Lisa Stampnitzky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stampnitzky, Lisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Study and teaching--History.
- Terrorism--Research--History.
- Terrorism--Research.
- History.
- Terrorism--Study and teaching.
- Local Subjects:
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Research--History.
- Terrorism--Study and teaching--History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- 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)onts : 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107026636
- 1107026636
- OCLC:
- 818985415
- Publisher Number:
- 40022472491
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