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''Invitation to Terror is a bold attempt to face important and disturbing questions, and hits a number of its targets'' John Dunn, Times Literary Supplement, August 2008 Mentioned on Social Vision (web), October 2007--Social Vision (web) Interview, Kent (University Magazine). Spring 2008. Publication mentioned in 'Kent' the magazine for University of Kent, Spring 2008 Discussion of topic, The Australian. 4 February 2009. Mentioned on Social Vision (web), October 2007--, Title mentioned, Sunday Herald (Glasgow). 3 May 2009. Author article on media fear, Sunday Herald (Glasgow). 3 May 2009. Author mentioned title in article.TimesOnline, 15 March 2009 "Furedi is a sociologist, adept at the analysis of culture... Invitation to Terror is a bold attempt to face important and disturbing questions" The Times Literary Supplement, August 2008 Author mentioned title in article. TimesOnline, 15 March 2009 Mentioned on Social Vision (web), October 2007--Sanford Lakoff "This book is fresh, well written, awash with lightly worn learning and so confident in its perspective that the argument... gathers pace with such vigour as each chapter rolls by that the book's end it seems well-nigh irrefutable" Times Higher Educational Supplement--Sanford Lakoff "Invitation to Terror has a relevence to policy makers far outside of the security arena" Tribune--Sanford Lakoff "He (Frand Furedi) is good at noticing history repeating itself - for example, in 'the periodic discovery that terrorism represents a new and unprecedented danger' - and interrogates usefully the notions of 'vulnerability' or being 'at risk'" Saturday Guardian--Sanford Lakoff
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Frank Furedi argues that Western culture appears to feed off a diet of terror and inadvertently offers its enemies an invitation to be terrorised. We have not developed an intellectual framework in which to be able to confront the fear of terrorism. The language we use betrays confusion about the threat we face and therefore undermines our capacity to engage with it. Beginning with the question of 'Why do they hate us?' we find ourselves unsure of who 'they' are. Even more unsettling is the realisation that we are not quite sure of who 'we' are. In this startling and original book Frank Furedi engages with some of the most fundamental questions confronting society today.
We are in a global conflict that appears so confusing that we are not even certain what to call it. The failure to conceptualize the issues at stake is demonstrated by the absence of consensus around even what words to describe the meaning of the present conflict and enemy. Suddenly governments stop speaking about the War on Terror and talk about the Long War. The shift in terminology often betrays confusion about the issues at stake. Lack of clarity about what this war is about, who are the protagonists, its scope and duration dominates discussions on this conflict. Meaningless terms often represent an attempt to evade. In this case they express confusion and the inability to make sense of life in the twenty-first century.
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- VerlagContinuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Erscheinungsdatum2007
- ISBN 10 0826499570
- ISBN 13 9780826499578
- EinbandTapa dura
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