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Unknowing the 'War on Terror' - The Pleasures of Risk (Hardcover)
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Unknowing the 'War on Terror' - The Pleasures of Risk (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
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This book offers new insights into the excesses and uncanniness of
the 'War on Terror' via an engagement with the pleasures of risk.
Engaging with the unconscious, the excess, the uncanny and the
spectacular dimensions of the 'War on Terror' - as made evident,
for example, in the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2013 manhunt
for the Boston Marathon bombers - leads this book to probe the
so-called order of things that has made this war intelligible in
both mainstream and critical approaches to Security Studies and
International Relations. Specifically, this book brings to light
and theorizes the obscene pleasures of the 'War on Terror' and its
supplementary precautionary risk logic. Coming to grips with this
(i.e., the pleasures of risk), ultimately via an engagement with
critical psychoanalytic theory, leads this book to argue that we
may be other than we think we are within critical International
Relations (IR) traditions. Furthermore, albeit without discounting
the madness, if not desolation, of the present (extending from the
'War on Terror' to the politics of Brexit and Donald Trump), it
suggests there may be some relief in that yet. This book will be of
much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, critical
security studies, political theory and International Relations
broadly.
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