Unknowing the "War on Terror": The Pleasures of Risk
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 189054738
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781351048606
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138485648
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph investigates the excessive and uncanny dimensions of the ‘war on terror’ – with wide-ranging theoretical and methodological implications. It puts Foucault in conversation with Baudrillard, Lacan, Freud and Zizek to illuminate and push the boundaries of leading post-structural and other critical approaches to counterterrorism, identity formation, and the cultural politics of emotion. The book provides in-depth investigations of official and cultural counterterrorism ‘practice’ from different national contexts (the U.S. and the U.K.) and traces the complex contours of our political world across multiple ‘locations’: government statements, counterterrorism policy, counterterrorism practice, popular film, literature, news stories and everyday practice.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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