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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Dr Vian Bakir

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Dr Vian Bakir

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors in America and Britain) over their use of torture, first-hand or second-hand, to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring key agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting detailed case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, this insightful volume exposes dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy. Whether in the form of unauthorized leaks, official investigations, investigative journalism, real-time reporting, or Non-Governmental Organisation activity, this timely study evaluates various modes of resistance to governments’ attempts at strategic political communication, with particular attention to ‘sousveillance’: community-based recording from first-person perspectives. A rigorous exposition of the power-knowledge relationships constituting the torture-intelligence nexus, which re-evaluates agenda-building models in the digital age and assesses the strength of the public sphere across the Third, Fourth and Fifth Estates, Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in media and communication, sociology and social theory, politics and political communication, international relations, and journalism.

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Violence, Society and Radical Theory

Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society

By: Dr William Pawlett

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Violence, Society and Radical Theory

Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society

By: Dr William Pawlett

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled ‘inexplicable’ - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful. The book offers an understanding of violence as fundamental to social relations and social organisation, departing from studies that focus on individual offenders and their psychological states to concentrate instead on the symbolic relations or exchanges between agents and between agents and the structures they find themselves inhabiting. Developing the notion of symbolic economies of violence to emphasise the volatility and ambivalence of social exchanges, Violence, Society and Radical Theory reveals the importance to our understanding of violence, of the relationship between the structural or systemic violence of consumer capitalist society and forms of ‘counter-violence’ which attack this system. A theoretically rich yet grounded expansion of that which can be considered meaningful or thinkable within sociological theory, this ground-breaking book will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory and contemporary philosophy.

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1472403851

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A Genealogy of Social Violence

Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family

By: Dr Clint Jones

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A Genealogy of Social Violence

Founding Murder, Rawlsian Fairness, and the Future of the Family

By: Dr Clint Jones

Examining the mimetic theory of René Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic social relationships. With attention to family relationships, A Genealogy of Social Violence sheds light on the processes by which the traditional nuclear family, through the mimetic behaviour of children, embeds violence into human desires and hence society as whole. Challenging the thought of Girard and of Rawls in order to offer a new understanding of justice, this book suggests that in order to achieve a more peaceful society, what is required is not the self-defeating narrative of equality, developed in order to manage the violence engendered by our social institutions, but a reconceptualisation of the nuclear family structure. A striking critique of modern society, which draws on religion, mythology, literature, history, philosophy and political theory, A Genealogy of Social Violence will be of interest to social and political theorists, as well as philosophers working in the area of contemporary social and European thought.

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Dr Vian Bakir

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Book's by Dr Vian Bakir

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Violence, Society and Radical Theory

Violence, Society and Radical Theory

A Genealogy of Social Violence

A Genealogy of Social Violence

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

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