Terror and Taboo is about the mythology of terrorism; it is an exploration of the ways we talk about terrorism. It offers incontestable evidence to support the idea that we give power to terrorism by the way we write and talk about it. According to Zulaika and Douglass, we make terrorism worse by the way we represent it in the media and in everyday conversation. Through their examination of terrorism, they propose to remove the taboos surrounding terrorism. Terror and Taboo is full of examples to ground the authors premise, ranging from specific examples, such as tendency to talk more about where Timothy McVeigh shopped for weapons than about the international traffic in arms by legitimate nations, to more theoretical interpretations that will be familiar to readers of cultural studies books.
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Joseba Zulaika is an Associate Professor in the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada. He is the author of Basque Violence. William Douglass is a Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Basque Studies at the University of Nevada.
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Is all terrorism like the Basque nationalists?,
By SPC Michael Wellck (queltor@yahoo.com) (Fort Irwn, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism (Paperback)
This book started out as a good overview of terrorism. How words will define the reality of a situation, how terrorism depends on the media for the terror effect, how terrorist attacks are random while still having a target, and a fairly good discussion of how terrorism is defined. However, at about the halfway point, the book became too focused towards the ETA, a terrorist organization supporting Basque nationalists. This book went from a discussion of terrorism, to a discussion of how the police were abusing their power while trying to fight the ETA. I suppose it covered the topic well, but it was annoying because I wanted a book on terrorism in general, not a book about the ETA and the police.
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Brute facts in their speechless horror are the very substance of serious terrorism discourse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
terrorism discourse, play with chance, terrorism spectacle, counterterrorism campaign, paramilitary culture, terrorism studies, terrorist behavior, violent actors, terrorism experts, political terrorism, tortured people, terrorist violence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oklahoma City, United States, Don Emilio, Wild Man, World Trade Center, New York Times, State Department, Branch Davidians, Janet Reno, Saddam Hussein, Middle East, New World Order, Gulf War, Great Britain, Ruby Ridge, Soviet Union, World War, Northern Ireland, President Clinton, Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, White House, Fearful Innocence, Ronald Reagan, Tropics of Terror, Basque Studies Program New!
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Brute facts in their speechless horror are the very substance of serious terrorism discourse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
terrorism discourse, play with chance, terrorism spectacle, counterterrorism campaign, paramilitary culture, terrorism studies, terrorist behavior, violent actors, terrorism experts, political terrorism, tortured people, terrorist violence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oklahoma City, United States, Don Emilio, Wild Man, World Trade Center, New York Times, State Department, Branch Davidians, Janet Reno, Saddam Hussein, Middle East, New World Order, Gulf War, Great Britain, Ruby Ridge, Soviet Union, World War, Northern Ireland, President Clinton, Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, White House, Fearful Innocence, Ronald Reagan, Tropics of Terror, Basque Studies Program New!
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- From the Ashes by James R. Lewis on 8 pages
- The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad on 6 pages
- Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature by Alex P. Schmid on 6 pages
- Totem and Taboo (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud on 6 pages
- The Terror Network by Claire Sterling on 5 pages
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- America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Jeffory A. Clymer on 8 pages
- Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (The Ethnography of Political Violence) by Jeffrey A. Sluka on 6 pages
- Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson by Alex Houen in Front Matter, page 141, and Back Matter
- Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma by Ana Douglass in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison by David Chandler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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