Understanding Terror: Perspectives for Canadians - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552382729 ISBN 13: 9781552382721

Verlag: University of Calgary Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

While much has been said about the global war on terror, the concept remains cunningly elusive and yet undeniably pervasive. This collection of essays is an effort to discover the Canadian "self" through exploration of the terrorist "other."
Understanding Terror:Perspectives for Canadians as a collection, views the war on terror from unique eyes. It defines the boundaries of terror, examines its construction in the media, and explores its relationship to the Muslim "other."

Understanding Terror: Perspectives for Canadians takes a historical approach to consideration of terror through specific examples and its presence in the media, in North American society, and particularly in Canada. Contributors to the volume include journalists, scholars, and public policy experts, many of whom have viewed or experienced terror first-hand. Their aim is to examine specific events, reflect on how those events might be interpreted, and provide historical context, all the while encouraging the reader to question preconceived characterizations of this highly charged political and cultural issue.

The book includes essays by Gwynne Dyer, Major Brent Beardsley, Stuart Farson, Doug Firby, Ronald Glasberg, James P. Lassoie, George Melnyk, and Reg Whitaker.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Karim-Aly S. Kassam believes that the so-called "war on terror" has hijacked international focus from more substantive issues such as the environmental crisis, poverty alleviation, food security, and conservation of biocultural diversity that are essential to human survival. In trying to understand terror, Dr. Kassam and the contributors to this work seek to broaden public discourse on the perception of terror. Among his many publications, Dr. Kassam has co-edited Canada and September 11: Impact and Response (2002). He recently authored Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic (2009). Dr. Kassam is International Associate Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies at Cornell University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Calgary Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1552382729
• ISBN 13: 9781552382721
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
• Herausgeber: Kassam Karim-Aly S.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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