Terrorism Or Patriotism

Author : Yamuna Sangarasivam
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030826651
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism written by Yamuna Sangarasivam and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersecting forces of nationalism, terrorism, and patriotism that normalize an acceptance of the global war on terror as essential to maintaining freedom and democracy as defined by white nation-states. Readers are introduced to speculative ethnography: an experimental methodology that bends time and space through the practice of avant-garde poetics. This study conceptualizes terrorism as a place of colonial encounters between soldiers, insurgents, civilians, and leaders of nation-states. The tactics of suicide bombings employed by the Tamil nationalist movement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, are juxtaposed with drone strikes in asymmetric warfare where violence becomes a means of dialogue. Each chapter weaves seemingly disparate narratives from multiple experiences and sites of war, inviting readers to witness the condition of getting lost in that willful attachment to killing and being killed in service of patriotic pride and national belonging.

Author : John Bodnar
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469662620
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided by Terror written by John Bodnar and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering surrounding the attack. Twenty years later, the war still simmers, and both forms of patriotism continue to shape historical understandings of 9/11's legacy and the political life of the nation. John Bodnar's compelling history shifts the focus on America's War on Terror from the battlefield to the arena of political and cultural conflict, revealing how fierce debates over the war are inseparable from debates about the meaning of patriotism itself. Bodnar probes how honor, brutality, trauma, and suffering have become highly contested in commemorations, congressional correspondence, films, soldier memoirs, and works of art. He concludes that Americans continue to be deeply divided over the War on Terror and how to define the terms of their allegiance--a fissure that has deepened as American politics has become dangerously polarized over the first two decades of this new century.

Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135929963
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Patriotic is the Patriot Act? written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short book, Etzioni, the well-known and respected public intellectual and communitarian thinker, charts a middle course, or third way 'between those who are committed to shore up our liberties but blind to the needs of public security, as well as those who never met a right they are not willing to curtail to give authorities an even freer hand.' This book will prove a useful guide for citizens looking for a thought provoking, well-reasoned and sober analysis of one of the hot button issues of our time.

Author : John E. Bodnar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469662633
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided by Terror written by John E. Bodnar and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering surrounding the attack. Twenty years later, the war still simmers, and both forms of patriotism continue to shape historical understandings of 9/11's legacy and the political life of the nation. John Bodnar's compelling history shifts the focus on America's War on Terror from the battlefield to the arena of political and cultural conflict, revealing how fierce debates over the war are inseparable from debates about the meaning of patriotism itself"--

Author : Hensley J. Hunter
Publisher : Xlibris
ISBN 13 : 9781425770884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism Or Patriotism written by Hensley J. Hunter and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Hensley J. Hunter, longtime observer of the Middle East scene, analyzes terrorism, that widespread phenomenon of our times, and discusses its relationship to the many unsolved problems in that important region of the world. He begins by isolating terrorism from the slogans and the spin that have become attached to it, like barnacles on a ship. He discourages the lumping together of all insurgent and liberation movements found in diverse areas of the globe into a catch-all word a word that is used to also include al-Qaida, that truly terrorist group, advocating pure violence and anarchy. The author explains why the undifferentiating which accompanies such a loaded term as "terrorism" has caused costly delays in solving the paramount problem in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians. It has also caused confusion in the public's mind concerning the patriotic aspirations and motives of distinctly separate groups in the Third World who are fighting against great odds, and ferociously at times, to survive economically and physically under extreme conditions of occupation, persecution, usurpation, or even genocide. Dr. Hunter believes that al-Qaida, with its pernicious aims and methods, is quite different from the other groups which are inappropriately lumped with it. He feels that Al-Qaida itself must be confronted and eradicated from all its areas of operation. The book includes sections on Iran, South America and Africa, areas that are in turmoil, yet having problems that would be amenable to a change of direction in our foreign policy. The book is a primer for the uninformed, with its easy-to-read story-like descriptive style. Yet it contains a wealth of rarely presented information for the reader who is better acquainted with the subject.

Author : Cary Stacy Smith
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398085633
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patriot Act written by Cary Stacy Smith and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Igor Primoratz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317083172
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriotism written by Igor Primoratz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic and cultural globalization and the worldwide threat of terrorism have contributed to the resurgence of patriotic loyalty in many parts of the world and made the issues it raises highly topical. This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range of conceptual, moral and political questions raised by the current revival of patriotism. It displays both similarities and differences between patriotism and nationalism, and considers the proposal of Habermas and others to disconnect the two. Ideal as a supplementary reader for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in politics/political science especially in political theory, contemporary political ideologies and nationalism and in philosophy for courses on applied ethics and political philosophy.

Author : Harvey W. Kushner
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452246424
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Terrorism written by Harvey W. Kushner and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very serious and terrifying aspect of our contemporary society is the ever-present threat of terrorist activity. The horrific events that occurred at the World Trade Center and at the federal building in Oklahoma City dispel the notion that the United States is immune to such acts. Understanding this ominous kind of threat is the best way to prepare for it. The Future of Terrorism provides rich insight into the definitions and classifications of terrorism, the impact of international events on terrorism in the United States, trends in domestic terrorism, infiltration by foreign terrorist groups, media and terrorism, reducing the risk, deterrents, trends and projects for the future. Edited by Harvey W. Kushner, this carefully organized and very readable volume contains original contributions by a wide array of noted scholars, researchers, practitioners, media professionals, and advocates. Tailored for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences, The Future of Terrorism is also a must read for academics, law enforcement personnel, victimologists, mental health professionals, and concerned readers in the general public.

Author : David Cole
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458788199
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism and the Constitution written by David Cole and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of government intrusions on Constitutional rights in response to threats from abroad, Cole and Dempsey warn that a society in which civil liberties are sacrificed in the name of national security is in fact less secure than one in which they are upheld. A new chapter includes a discussion of domestic spying, preventive detention, the many court challenges to post-9/11 abuses, implementation of the PATRIOT ACT, and efforts to reestablish the checks and balances left behind in the rush to strengthen governmental powers.

Author : David Kieran
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479824003
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signature Wounds written by David Kieran and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of the Army’s efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of our troops. In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama took to the Senate floor to tell his colleagues that “many of our injured soldiers are returning from Iraq with traumatic brain injury,” which doctors were calling the “signature wound” of the Iraq War. Alarming stories of veterans taking their own lives raised a host of vital questions: Why hadn’t the military been better prepared to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Why were troops being denied care and sent back to Iraq? Why weren’t the Army and the VA doing more to address these issues? Drawing on previously unreleased documents and oral histories, David Kieran tells the broad and nuanced story of the Army’s efforts to understand and address these issues, challenging the popular media view that the Iraq War was mismanaged by a callous military unwilling to address the human toll of the wars. The story of mental health during this war is the story of how different groups—soldiers, veterans and their families, anti-war politicians, researchers and clinicians, and military leaders—approached these issues from different perspectives and with different agendas. It is the story of how the advancement of medical knowledge moves at a different pace than the needs of an Army at war, and it is the story of how medical conditions intersect with larger political questions about militarism and foreign policy. This book shows how PTSD, TBI, and suicide became the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, how they prompted change within the Army itself, and how mental health became a factor in the debates about the impact of these conflicts on US culture.