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This book offers an East-West comparative analysis of mediatised
terrorism. This is the first country-specific analysis of the
mediatisation of terrorism, with Pakistan and Australia
representing the two worlds, respectively. Caught up in the '9/11
effect', Australia is known for its anti-terror
'hyper-legislation', despite the implausible nature of the threat.
In contrast, Pakistan is plagued by terrorism, yet the military
establishment favours a duplicitous policy of fighting militant
groups selectively. To understand how the two diverse cultural
sites, with their very different experiences of terrorism, make
sense of this unpredictable threat, the book uses Beck's World Risk
Society theory as a conceptual framework to examine the production
and construction of news narratives around the risk of terrorism in
both countries through textual analysis of local news stories and
in-depth interviews with Australian and Pakistani journalists.
Narratives about 'global terrorism' are mostly 'Western', with fear
of its impact on 'Western' democracy and civilisation. This book
aims to fill the gap and present a nuanced understanding of global
terrorism by examining the characteristics of the phenomenon in a
Western as well as an Eastern location and the ways in which the
risk of terrorism is being played out in the two worlds. This book
will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies,
media studies, Asia-Pacific politics, and International Relations.
The book includes the synthesis, characterization and X-ray
analysis of organotin(IV) carboxylates and organotin(IV)
thiocarboxylates. Various di- and triorganotin(IV) compounds have
been synthesized with a stoichiometric amount of synthesized
carboxylic acid and thiocarboxylic acid. The structural assignments
were made on the basis of spectral techniques such as FT-IR, 1H,
13C, 119Sn NMR and mass spectrometry, which ascertain the
tetrahedral environment around the tin atom in solution while penta
or hexa coordination is found in the solid state. Biological
activity tests of the synthesized carboxylates and thiocarboxylates
were made against various medically important bacteria and fungi.
Most of the compounds were found to show activity with a few
exceptions. These compounds were also evaluated for their
cytotoxicity using the brine-shrimp lethality bioassay method. Only
few of the compounds were found to be nontoxic
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