Alan Ingram

Spaces of Security and Insecurity

Geographies of the War on Terror
Herausgeber: Dodds, Klaus

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the debates in social theory by deploying three broad approaches to interrogate the War on Terror: discourse and performance; biopolitics and governmentality; and affect. This title demonstrates the reach of the War on Terror into a wide variety of social contexts, its effects, and how people are responding to it.

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This timely book explores the diverse geographies of the war on terror. Drawing on recent advances in social theory, it offers original case studies and theoretical reflections on one of the central issues in contemporary geopolitics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780754673491
• ISBN-10: 0754673499
• Artikelnr.: 41245083

Autorenporträt

Alan Ingram is Lecturer in Geography at University College London. Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published five books and in 2005 was awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize for his achievements in the fields of geopolitics and political geography.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror
1: Constructing the War on Terror
2: Blair, Neo-Conservatism and the War on Territorial Integrity 1
3: Containers of Fate: Problematic States and Paradoxical Sovereignty
4: Colonizing Commemoration: Sacred Space and the War on Terror 1
5: A `New Mecca for Terrorism'? Unveiling the `Second Front' in Southeast Asia
2: Governing Through Security
6: Disciplining the Diaspora: Tamil Self-Determination and the Politics of Proscription
7: Negotiating Security: Governmentality and Asylum/Immigration NGOs in the UK
8: Asylum, Immigration and the Circulation of Unease at Lunar House
9: Garden Terrorists and the War on Weeds: Interrogating New Zealand's Biosecurity Regime
10: `All We Need is NATO'?: Euro-Atlantic Integration and Militarization in Europe
3: Alternative Imaginations
11: Satellite Television, the War on Terror and Political Conflict in the Arab World
12: Maranatha! Premillennial Dispensationalism and the Counter-Intuitive Geopolitics of (In)Security
13: Common Ground? Anti-Imperialism in UK Anti-War Movements
14: Art and the Geopolitical: Remapping Security at Green Zone/Red Zone