Culture, crisis and America's War on Terror / Stuart Croft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Croft, Stuart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Social aspects.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media.

Terrorism--Social aspects--United States.

Terrorism.

United States--Foreign relations--2001-.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Culture, Crisis & America's War on Terror

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the infamous events of 9/11, the fear of terrorism and the determination to strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. The 'war on terror' discourse has developed not only through American politics but via other channels including the media, the church, music, novels, films and television, and therefore permeates many aspects of American life. Stuart Croft suggests that the process of this production of knowledge has created a very particular form of common sense which shapes relationships, jokes and even forms of tattoos. Understanding how a social process of crisis can be mapped out and how that process creates assumptions allows policy-making in America's war on terror to be examined from new perspectives. Using IR approaches together with insights from cultural studies, this book develops a dynamic model of crisis which seeks to understand the war on terror as a cultural phenomenon.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Disrupting meaning; 2 Deconstructing the second American 9/11; 3 The decisive intervention; 4 The institutionalisation and stabilisation of the policy programme; 5 Acts of resistance to the 'war on terror'; 6 The discourse strikes back; 7 Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-17087-7

1-280-70280-X

0-511-24650-1

0-511-24719-2

0-511-24503-3

0-511-31890-1

0-511-60735-0

0-511-24580-7

OCLC:

476020497