UID:
almahu_9949386392602882
Format:
1 online resource (216 pages)
ISBN:
9781000224603
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9781000224627
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1000224627
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9781003093374
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100309337X
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9781000224610
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1000224619
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1000224600
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics Ser.
Content:
Drawing on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives, this book examines discourses mediating the global War on Terror, including governmental speeches, legal documents, print and broadcast journalism, and military memoirs. The book argues that these discourses motivate, and are motivated by, a myth of imminent harm that purportedly justifies a series of "preemptive" measures such as war, torture, and targeted killing, as well as an array of intrusive domestic security procedures such as profiling and mass surveillance. Dominant themes include selective compassion in the mainstream media, the language of war and the sacrificial sublime, asymmetrical warfare and the nostalgia for total war, weaponized drones and just war theory, and the role of American exceptionalism in normalizing endless war. Scholars and students alike will take interest in this original contribution to the fields of cultural studies, psychoanalysis, media studies, rhetoric, critical international relations, and international humanitarian law and ethics.
Note:
1. Introduction: "No Moment for Deliberation" 2. War Fatigue: Ethics in Reporting on Afghanistan and Iraq 3. War, Simulation, and the Sacrificial Sublime 4. Exceptionalism, Metaphor, and Hybrid Warfare 5. Killer Drones and the Language of International Law.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: "No Moment for Deliberation" -- 2 War Fatigue: Ethics in Reporting on Afghanistan and Iraq -- 3 War, Simulation, and the Sacrificial Sublime -- 4 Exceptionalism, Metaphor, and Hybrid Warfare -- 5 Killer Drones and the Language of International Humanitarian Law -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ramazani, Vaheed K., 1954- Rhetoric, fantasy, and the war on terror. Abingdon : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367554064
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003093374.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003093374
