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Terrorists as monsters : the unmanageable other from the French revolution to the Islamic state /

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This work helps the reader understand what lies behind the use of monster images in relation to terrorism, exploring why media government officials present or frame terrorists as monsters, but also why terrorists themselves sometimes try to act as such. Marco Pinfari argues that portraying terrorist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinfari, Marco (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Terrorists > History.
Monsters > History.
Revolutions > History.
Terroristes > Histoire.
Monstres > Histoire.
Révolutions > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY.
International Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Diplomacy.
Monsters
Revolutions
Terrorists
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This work helps the reader understand what lies behind the use of monster images in relation to terrorism, exploring why media government officials present or frame terrorists as monsters, but also why terrorists themselves sometimes try to act as such. Marco Pinfari argues that portraying terrorists as unmanageable monsters typically serves specific political agendas that, in turn, are designed to legitimize specific counter-terrorist policies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 210 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190927899
0190927895
9780190927912
0190927917