No Go World : How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics / Ruben Andersson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersson, Ruben, 1977- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political sociology.

Political geography.

Fear--Political aspects.

Fear.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants-from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote "danger zones." Instead of buying into apocalyptic visions, Andersson takes aim at how Western states and international organizations conduct military, aid, and border interventions in a dangerously myopic fashion, further disconnecting the world's rich and poor. Using drones, proxy forces, border reinforcement, and outsourced aid, risk-obsessed powers are helping to remap the world into zones of insecurity and danger. The result is a vision of chaos crashing into fortified borders, with national and global politics riven by fear. Andersson contends that we must reconnect and snap out of this dangerous spiral, which affects us whether we live in Texas or Timbuktu. Only by developing a new cartography of hope can we move beyond the political geography of fear that haunts us.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

Preface

Introduction: Into the Danger Zone

1. The Timbuktu Syndrome

2. Remoteness Remapped

3. The Tyranny of Distance

Interlude: The Drone, the Web, and the World of Mirrors

4. Wolves at the Door

5. The Snake Merchants

6. Where the Wild Things Are

Conclusion: Danger Unmapped

Acknowledgments

Power of Narration, Narration of Power: An Anthropological Appendix

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Andersson, Ruben, 1977- No go world.

ISBN:

9780520967700

0520967704

OCLC:

1084621113