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Showing 1 to 20 of 446 for “"Terror"”.
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The terror within
Illustrates the degree to which people from all walks of life learn how to cope and survive at all costs. The internal struggle for balance in troubled lives is seen in the external circumstances of everyday living. This collection of short stories observes some of the chaotic events which trigger …
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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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Psychoanalysis and Modernity: A Failure to Find Relief from Existential Terror
… against conscious awareness of existential terror. The term existential terror refers to the cognitive and emotional experience of recognizing the inevitability of death, which is often accompanied by feelings of angst, isolation from others, and awareness of meaninglessness. In this …
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The dynamics of terror : or, The grotesque character of Gothic fiction
… examines the use of the grotesque to create terror in Gothic fiction in the late l8th century and throughout the 19th century. After using Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast to establish the central role of the grotesque in fully successful Gothic texts, the focus then shifts to a …
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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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