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Showing 1 to 20 of 431 for “"Terror"”.
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Writing Terror: Representations of Terror and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Fiction
The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US and the “War on Terror” issued in a new era of political violence that has had an enduring influence on power constructions between East and West in the twenty-first century. Writers have reflected on these events and explored the complexities of terrorism, …
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Living Through Terror and Terror Through Living: The Biopolitical Dimensions of Religion, Security, and Terrorism
… by thinkers, media pundits, and politicians on terrorism requires new, critical evaluation of the processes by which terrorism is understood. By investigating the concept of biopolitics, as developed specifically through Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, new insights into the interactions …
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British Muslim Extremism: The Terror Within
… British Muslims have been implicated in terrorist acts in countries around the globe, and on July 7, 2005, four British Muslims carried out a terrorist attack on the London Underground. This was the first suicide bombing in the western world. The failure of British Muslims to integrate …
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The crime of 'terror' under International Humanitarian Law
… is to investigate the status of the crime of ‘terror’ as a war crime under international humanitarian law. Included in Article 51 (2) of Additional Protocol I and in Article 13 (2) of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the crime prohibits the ‘acts or threats of violence …
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The Relations of Terror and Immigration: Preventive Solutions
… implemented immigration reform to defend against terrorism, creating an institutional link between the two spuriously related issues of immigration and terrorism. This M.A. thesis examines the relationship between terrorism and immigration. It concludes that policies constructed from the rhetoric …
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Terror and everyday life: A history of horror
This dissertation aims to locate the power and popularity of contemporary horror films in terms of a response to post-modernity. Present-day horror films only make sense, can only be enjoyed, when read as spectacularly excessive productions overtly concerned with the everyday experience of …
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South Africa's response to terror : the case of PAGAD
… to 2001, South Africa was the victim of numerous terrorist acts carried out by the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD). This paper discusses the problems and the procedures and methods used to combat domestic terrorism in constitutional democracies as well as the problems encountered by …
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Stakeholders of terrorism, the war on terror and Caribbean preparedness
This thesis offers the Stakeholders of Terrorism concept with a view to more fully understanding the Caribbean’s preparedness for, and vulnerability to terrorism. In doing so, it presents an original assessment of the underscrutinised subject of terrorism as it relates to the Caribbean. It argues …
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Disrupting Memory: Trauma and Fictions of the ‘War on terror’
… intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate for marginalised and excluded perspectives. This study conceptualises global political discourse—as it relates to the ‘war on terror’ and its attendant conflicts—as characterised by incongruity, with transnational memory frames …
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Communist Perpetrated Terror at the Village Level in South Vietnam
The Vietnamese conflict differed from most wars in that key battles were not necessarily large nor fought by the military. Simultaneously with the military engagements raged an insidious political war which claimed as its victims a number equal to or exceeding the military casualties. To the …
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Cine Fantástico Y De Terror De Directoras Españolas: Una Mirada Empática
… españolas contemporáneas al cine fantástico y de terror desde una perspectiva de género y afectiva. A partir del estudio de seis largometrajes dirigidos por Elena López Riera, Carlota Pereda, Ana Asensio, Ángeles Huerta, Andrea Jaurrieta y Ainhoa Rodríguez, estrenados entre 2017 y 2022, la …
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Scared to death: an examination of underlying terror following death awareness
According to Terror Management Theory, when mortality is made salient the potential to experience terror causes powerful worldview defenses to manifest to suppress this potential. Recently, however, the theory has been criticized because no actual evidence has been found to show this potential to …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
<p>This dissertation focuses on specific discourses within the rhetoric of the "obesity crisis" that position the fat body as a threat to U.S. military power and national identity. Since 9/11, there has been a growing rhetoric that frames obesity as a threat to national security that is weakening …
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Selling terror: excitement, emotion-driven choice and ISIS's recruitment in Britain
This thesis examines the question of why ISIS followers were so easily convinced to join the group in 2014–2017 in spite of its public demonstration of brutality and numerous reports confirming its crimes. The phenomenon of ISIS’s propaganda is explored through the prism of the emotion-driven …
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