Writing the War on Terrorism
Language, Politics and Counter-Terrorism
1st Edition
Published on 30. July 2018
240 pages
978-1-5261-3092-1 (ISBN)
Description
Writing the war on terrorism' examines the public language of the war on terrorism, and the way that rhetoric has been used to justify the global counter-terrorism offensive as a response to 9/11. It discusses how language has been used to deliberately manipulate public anxiety about terrorist threats to gain support for military action, and how the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has been normalised through rhetoric and practice. .
It explains how the war on terrorism has been reproduced and amplified by key social actors and how it has become the dominant political narrative in America today, enjoying widespread bipartisan and popular support. The author argues that the normalisation and institutionalisation of the administration's current counter-terrorism approach is damaging to society's ethical values and to democratic political participation.
Lying at the intersection of International Relations, American politics, terrorism studies, discourse analysis, communication studies and cultural studies, this book will have genuine interdisciplinary appeal. -- .
It explains how the war on terrorism has been reproduced and amplified by key social actors and how it has become the dominant political narrative in America today, enjoying widespread bipartisan and popular support. The author argues that the normalisation and institutionalisation of the administration's current counter-terrorism approach is damaging to society's ethical values and to democratic political participation.
Lying at the intersection of International Relations, American politics, terrorism studies, discourse analysis, communication studies and cultural studies, this book will have genuine interdisciplinary appeal. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-3092-1 (9781526130921)
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Person
Richard Jackson is Reader in International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth
Content
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: language and politics
- Analysing the language of counter-terrorism
- Writing September 11, 2001
- Writing identity: evil terrorists, good Americans
- Writing threat and danger
- Writing the good (new) war on terrorism
- Language and power: reproducing the discourse
- Conclusion: politics, violence and resistance
- Appendix: official texts
- References
- Index
