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Freaking out - A Decade of Living with Terrorism (Hardcover)
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Freaking out - A Decade of Living with Terrorism (Hardcover)
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After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in
several directions. Some scholars examined the social construction
of terrorism, scrutinizing the political rhetoric and media
coverage associated with the threat. Other researchers investigated
the public’s elevated worries about terrorism and their effect on
public opinion, while still other analysts elucidated the post-9/11
changes in U.S. foreign and domestic policies. In Freaking Out: A
Decade of Living with Terrorism, Joshua Woods unites these areas of
research, interweaving the sociology and psychology of terrorism,
to create a broader and more compelling explanation of how the
attacks on 9/11 have changed American society. Offering a concise
review of the shifting policy arena in the post-9/11 era, Woods
chronicles not only major U.S. government actions, such as the wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also less visible changes, such as
shifts in immigration policy and the use and abuse of Homeland
Security funding by state and local governments. Investigating the
public’s response to terrorism, Woods examines the link between
media coverage of terrorism and public perceptions of the threat,
demonstrating how some news coverage elevates people’s worries
more than others. The events of 9/11 influenced the thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors of public officials, members of the press,
and ordinary people. The reactions of these groups are deeply
interrelated, but the study of them has remained isolated and
compartmentalized across several academic disciplines until now.
Demonstrating the virtue of multidisciplinary synthesis, this book
advances the growing field of terrorism studies in new directions.
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