Terror & Violence - Imagination and the Unimaginable - Softcover

Andrew Strathern

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8125032436 ISBN 13: 9788125032434

Publisher: Orient Longman, 2007

Synopsis

This volume offers a number of timely and original anthropological insights into the ways in which acts of terror - and reactions to those acts - impact on the lives of virtually everyone in the world today, as perpetrators, victims or witnesses as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, what we have come to regard as acts of terror - whether politically motivated or state sanctioned - have assumed many different forms and provoked widely differing responses throughout the world at a deeper level, the contributors explore the work of the imagination in extreme contexts of danger, such as those of terror and terrorism by stressing the imagination, and its role in amplifying the effects of experience, this collection brings together a coherent set of analyses that offer innovative and unexpected ways of understanding a major global problem of contemporary life

About this edition

• Publisher: Orient Longman
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 8125032436
• ISBN 13: 9788125032434
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250