UID:
almafu_9959677502502883
Format:
1 online resource (280 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-5806-9
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0-8223-7599-0
Content:
〈div〉The anthropologist Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's ""balance of terror."" He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations.〈/div〉
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction : the "new" normal -- "Survival is your business" : engineering ruins and affect in nuclear America -- Bad weather : on planetary crisis -- Sensitive but unclassified : secrecy and the counterterror state -- Biosecurity noir : weapons of mass destruction in a world without borders -- Living counterterror.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-22825-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5793-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822375999
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375999
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375999
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375999
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375999