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Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism"
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- Creator
- Lisa Stampnitzky
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781107697348, 1107697344
- OCLC
- ocn890015424
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.
- The invention of terrorism and the rise of the terrorism expert -- From insurgents to terrorists : experts, rational knowledge, and irrational subjects -- Disasters, diplomats, and databases : rationalization and its discontents -- Terrorism fever : the first war on terror and the politicization of expertise -- Loose can(n)ons : from small wars to the new terrorism -- The road to pre-emption -- The politics of (anti- )knowledge : disciplining terrorism after 9/11 -- The trouble with experts