| Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism Contributor(s): Zulaika, Joseba (Author), Douglass, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 041591759X ISBN-13: 9780415917599 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 Annotation: 'Terror and Taboo' examines the complicity of governments, the media, the arts, academia, and violent activists themselves in constituting 'terrorism' as a substitute for genuine political debate. The authors draw upon the lessons and perspectives afforded terrorism literature, social anthropology, and their own field work with Basque violence to question the very validity and utility of the entire concept of terrorism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science | Terrorism |
| Dewey: 303.625 |
| LCCN: 95-46989 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.97" W x 8.91" (0.92 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Terror and Taboo is about the mythology of terrorism; it is an exploration of the ways we talk about terrorism. It offers incontestable evidence to support the idea that we give power to terrorism by the way we write and talk about it. According to Zulaika and Douglass, we make terrorism worse by the way we represent it in the media and in everyday conversation. Through their examination of terrorism, they propose to remove the taboos surrounding terrorism. Terror and Taboo is full of examples to ground the authors premise, ranging from specific examples, such as tendency to talk more about where Timothy McVeigh shopped for weapons than about the international traffic in arms by legitimate nations, to more theoretical interpretations that will be familiar to readers of cultural studies books. |