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The global grapevine : why rumors of terrorism, immigration, and trade matter /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fine, Gary Alan
Other Authors: Ellis, Bill, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Rumor.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Rumor: plausible and credible
  • Rumor and September 11th: understanding the unthinkable
  • A riot of conspiracies
  • Migrants: disease in the body politic
  • "There goes the neighborhood": Latino migrants and immigration rumors
  • Tourist troubles: the travels of global rumor
  • The menace of international trade
  • Global trafficking in bodies
  • Whispers on the borderline.