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How to Look Good in a War: Justifying and Challenging State Violence
Brian Rappert
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Description for How to Look Good in a War: Justifying and Challenging State Violence
Hardback. Examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence in recent wars, from Iraq to Libya. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPVN; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how 'truth is the first casualty of war', this is the first to analyse exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalised.
Brian Rappert details the 'upside-down' world of war in which revelation conceals, knowledge fosters uncertainty, and transparency obscures. He looks at government spin during recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya where officials manoeuvre between circulating and withholding information.
Through looking at recent controversies such as the use of weapons ... Read more
This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how 'truth is the first casualty of war', this is the first to analyse exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalised.
Brian Rappert details the 'upside-down' world of war in which revelation conceals, knowledge fosters uncertainty, and transparency obscures. He looks at government spin during recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya where officials manoeuvre between circulating and withholding information.
Through looking at recent controversies such as the use of weapons ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745331805
SKU
V9780745331805
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99-1
About Brian Rappert
Brian Rappert is Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter.
Reviews for How to Look Good in a War: Justifying and Challenging State Violence
'One of our shrewdest commentators on the complicated ways in which we come to believe that wars are right and weapons are good.'
Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at George Mason University 'An important book with much to offer to anyone concerned with the study of statecraft in time of war'
Paul Rogers is Professor of ... Read more
Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at George Mason University 'An important book with much to offer to anyone concerned with the study of statecraft in time of war'
Paul Rogers is Professor of ... Read more