Since 11 September 2001, the War on Terror has dominated global political life. The book takes a critical look at different ways in which the George W. Bush administration created and justified this far-reaching conflict through their use of language and other discursive practices.
Times of Terror: Discourse, Temporality and the War on Terror
β Scribed by Lee Jarvis (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 211
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-24
Making Time, Shaping Time....Pages 25-41
Writing Radical Discontinuity....Pages 42-97
Writing Linear Times....Pages 98-132
Writing Timelessness....Pages 133-158
Time, Violence, Identity, Politics....Pages 159-167
Back Matter....Pages 168-201
β¦ Subjects
Terrorism and Political Violence; International Relations; European Politics; Political Science; Military and Defence Studies
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