Witnesses to Terror: Understanding the Meanings and Consequences of Terrorism by

Description: Witnesses to Terror by L. Howie This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and that the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and that the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism. Notes This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and the key for understanding terrorisms meanings and consequences Author Biography LUKE HOWIE is Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia. He is also a member of the Global Terrorism Research Centre and the author of Terrorism, the Worker and the City and Terror on the Screen. Table of Contents Preface Uncertainty in the Study of Terrorism The Witness of Terrorism Like a Weapon in the Street: Terrorism and the Media in the 21st Century Witnessing Terrorism and its Enduring Consequences Elder Witnesses: Witnessing Terrorism in Later/Middle Life Vampires, Lawyers, Merchant Bankers: Post-9/11 Organizations in Science Fiction Guarding the Contact Zones: Security Guards in a Time of Terror Witnessing Terrorism Notes Bibliography Index Review Terror creates fear and only succeeds where there are witnesses to consume terror. Counter-terrorism in Luke Howies imaginative framework means countering feelings of terror. He has written an original and critical contribution to terrorism studies in situating different categories of witnesses, and documenting their narratives of trauma and repair. Thoughtful and compassionate, Howe writes without jargon, prediction or pretence about the age of terror. - Bryan S. Turner, Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USAThis impressive book not only engages critically with the specialized literature on terrorism but also introduces a new way of understanding the psychological effects of 9/11. This seminal research examines what it means when terrorists and the mass-media are inextricably intertwined. Howie brilliantly frames terrorism within the sense of uncertainty that it creates. Terrorisms power does not depend on damage or the number of casualties alone it depends on who is witnesses. Undoubtedly, Witnesses to Terror, is an all-encompassing view of terrorism, which I must confess is one of the best book I have read on the subject. - Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina Long Description Witnesses of terrorism, spread throughout the world, watched the 9/11 terrorist attacks in real-time. Images were instantly beamed to audiences both near and far from where passenger airplanes were hijacked and flown into some of the United States most recognisable locations. These images were captured, recorded and have been replayed incessantly in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It is a decade that quickly became defined for many as a time of terror. This book argues that to understand the meanings and consequences of terrorism, we must understand terrorisms witnesses. Witnesses are unique, and what they witness is subsequently received and understood in unique, subjective ways. But the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the most legitimate, is of vital importance for understanding the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism. Witnesses are never distinct from the things that they witness, and witnessing is never merely watching. Review Quote This impressive book not only engages critically with the specialized literature on terrorism but also introduces a new way of understanding the psychological effects of 9/11. This seminal research examines what it means when terrorists and the mass-media are inextricably intertwined. Howie brilliantly frames terrorism within the sense of uncertainty that it creates. Terrorisms power does not depend on damage or the number of casualties alone it depends on who is witnesses. Undoubtedly,Witnesses to Terror, is an all-encompassing view of terrorism, which I must confess is one of the best book I have read on the subject. -Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina Description for Bookstore This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and the key for understanding terrorisms meanings and consequences Details ISBN023029975X Language English ISBN-10 023029975X ISBN-13 9780230299757 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-08-29 Short Title WITNESSES TO TERROR 2012/E Pages 198 Edition Description 2012 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Understanding the Meanings and Consequences of Terrorism Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2012-08-29 AU Release Date 2012-08-29 NZ Release Date 2012-08-29 Illustrations XII, 198 p. Author L. Howie Publisher Palgrave Macmillan DEWEY 363.325 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781349335350 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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