This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the
language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.
The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that
either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality
threatening democratic society and thus requiring certain sorts of
response, or argue, equally simplistically, that the invocation of
terror is merely the ideological veil for continued capitalist
exploitation. While closer in spirit to the second of these, this
work does not simply dismiss the discourse on terror, but rather
investigates the consequences of this discourse for the
organisation of life in democratic societies.
In interrogating the discourse of terror from a variety of
viewpoints, this interdisciplinary text builds upon the
understanding of the importance of the language of terror from a
new perspective: the interconnections between discourses of terror;
the material realities they at once reflect and help produce; and
the specificities of particular historical circumstances. In
offering an integrated approach of this sort, and founded on a base
of applied philosophy, broadly conceived, the contributors offer a
new contribution to both public and academic debate, and at the
same time initiate a series of further interventions in Critical
Terrorism Studies.
This book will be of interest to students of critical terrorism
studies, terrorism studies, security studies, philosophy and
discourse theory.
Bob Brecher is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy,
Politics & Ethics at Brighton University. He has published
widely in moral, political and applied philosophy and the politics
of higher education.
Mark Devenney is Academic Programme Leader in Humanities at the
University of Brighton. He has published in the areas of critical
theory, post-Marxism and post-Colonial politics.
Aaron Winter is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of
Abertay Dundee. His research focuses on terrorism and the concept
of 'extremism', whiteness, masculinity and violence, and the
extreme right, organised racism and the religious right in the
United States.
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