Jeroen Gunning / Richard Jackson / Marie Breen Smyth (eds.)

Critical Terrorism Studies

A New Research Agenda
Herausgeber: Jackson, Richard; Gunning, Jeroen; Smyth, Marie Breen

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Produktbeschreibung

In direct response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the need for and the shape of the exciting new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780415455077
• ISBN-10: 0415455073
• Artikelnr.: 31081114

Autorenporträt

Richard Jackson is Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, where he is also Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism. Marie Breen Smyth is Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV) at Aberystwyth University. She is a Reader in International Politics and co-editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism. Jeroen Gunning is Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence and co-editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Case for Critical Terrorism Studies Marie Breen Smyth,
Jeroen Gunning and Richard Jackson Part 1: The Contemporary Study of
Polictical Terrorism 1. Mapping Terrorism Studies after 9/11: An Academic
Field of Old Problems and New Prospects Magnus Ranstorp 2. Contemporary
Terrorism Studies: Issues in Research Andrew Silke 3. In the Service of
Power: Terrorism Studies and US Intervention in the Global South Sam
Raphael 4. Knowledge, Power and Politics in the Study of Political
Terrorism Richard Jackson Part 2: Critical Approaches to the Study of
Political Terrorism 5. Exploring a Critical Theory Approach to Terrorism
Studies Harmonie Toros and Jeroen Gunning 6. Emancipation and Critical
Terrorism Studies Matt McDonald 7. Middle East Area Studies and Terrorism
Studies: Establishing Links via a Critical Approach Katerina Dalacoura 8.
The Contribution of Anthropology to Critical Terrorism Studies Jeffrey A.
Sluka 9. Social Movement Theory and the Study of Terrorism Jeroen Gunning
10. The Contemporary 'Mahabharata' and the Many 'Draupadis': Bringing
Gender to Critical Terrorism Studies Christine Sylvester and Swati Parashar
11. Subjectivities, 'Suspect Communities', Governments, and the Ethics of
Research on 'Terrorism' Marie Breen Smyth 12. Critical Terrorism Studies:
Framing a New Research Agenda Richard Jackson, Jeroen Gunning and Marie
Breen Smyth