Re-Imagining the War on Terror Seeing, Waiting, Travelling

by Hill, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780230200081
• ISBN10: 0230200087
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An innovative reassessment of the War on Terror organized around the themes of seeing, waiting, travelling.

Author Biography

ANDREW HILL is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change at The Open University, UK. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and The London Institute and held Research Fellowships at the University of Reading and the University of Ulster.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
September 11, 2001: Spectacularity, the Ruse, the Blot	p. 7
'Acting Out': Afghanistan, Autumn 2001 and since	p. 19
The Bin Laden Tapes	p. 32
'Shock & Awe': Iraq, Spring 2003 and since	p. 43
Hostage Videos: 'scenes of slaughter'	p. 59
Endless Waiting	p. 74
Imagining Kabul	p. 89
Phantoms and Jails	p. 104
The Unseen	p. 117
New York: A Return	p. 130
Epilogue	p. 142
Notes	p. 146
References	p. 164
Index	p. 172
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