Tracing the discourses of terrorism : identity, genealogy and state / Ondrej Ditrych.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ditrych, Ondrej (Research fellow in security)

Series:

Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations series

Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Government policy--History.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Social aspects.

Terrorism--Government policy.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 202 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire, England : Palgrave Macmillan 2014.

Summary:

This book provides a fresh intervention into the critical terrorism debate, presenting a new conceptualization of terrorism from an historical perspective. It examines how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s, under what conditions these statements have been made and the effect that discourses made up of these statements have had on global politics. Ditrych's analysis explores the constitutive role of the present discourse on the global power apparatus (dispositif), in which the concept of terrorism strategically orients a broad set of practices - punishment, discipline and surveillance - that bear on states, populations and individual human bodies. Instead of creating a new theory of the terrorist, the book historicizes terrorism, highlighting the invisible practices of power and knowledge which constitute it. Looking at the archives of state discourse related to terrorism in the League of Nations and the United Nations, this unique work traces the evolution and key features of terrorism discourse. As such, it makes an original contribution to our understanding of how contemporary terrorism discourse emerged historically, and the forms that it currently takes. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Concerning Method 9

Methodology, or the frame 11

Method, or the road 20

2 Overture: One World, Many Terrorisms 30

3 Emergence/y (1930s) 39

The archaeology of patient and painstaking endeavor 40

Things fall apart 50

Conclusion 53

4 Division (1970s) 55

Mastered by their own rhetoric 56

The sound and the fury 70

Conclusion 73

5 Enclosure (2000s) 76

A fugitive and a vagabond on the earth 79

A world without rules 90

Conclusion 92

6 Power and Knowledge 94

1930s 95

1970s 102

2000s 112

Conclusion 119.

ISBN:

9781137394958

1137394951

OCLC:

870285722