In the era of war on terror, the term terror has tended to be
applied to its sudden eruptions in the metropolises of the global
north. This volume directs its attention to terror's manifestations
in other locations and lives. The title Living Through Terror
refers both to the pervasiveness of terror in societies where
extreme violence and war constitute the everyday processes of life
as well as to the experience of surviving terror and living into
the future.
The contributions consider terror's effects in those ignored and
silenced locations where terror is either naturalised (the
Philippines, South Africa, Timor Leste, Sri Lanka) or made
invisible (the neo-liberal democracies of Australia and Italy).
The stories of ruined places, displaced bodies and identities
shattered and remade that emerge from these pages bring into view
the socio-political systems, cultural geographies and regimes of
territoriality through which terror is engendered and naturalised,
and the institutions and imaginaries that continue to underpin
them.
The essays, literary writings and images collected here attend,
in their different ways, to subjects living in and with terror as
an element incorporated in their everyday, and to the processes by
which terror exercises itself in their lives, whether it is
perpetrated by state or non-state actors. Simultaneously, the
contributions attest to the tactics subjects deploy to confront and
negotiate conditions of terror, their attempts to live with and
through terror and, ultimately, their strategies to recover through
the everyday and the ordinary the seeds of life and hope.
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