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Freaking Out: A Decade of Living with Terrorism
Joshua Woods
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Description for Freaking Out: A Decade of Living with Terrorism
Hardback. Offering a concise review of the shifting policy arena in the post-9/11 era, Joshua Woods chronicles not only major US government actions, such as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also less visible changes, such as shifts in immigration policy and the use and abuse of Homeland Security funding by state and local governments. Num Pages: 192 pages, tables; figures; notes; bibliography; index. BIC Classification: JFD; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400. 8vo.
After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in several directions. Some scholars examined the social construction of terrorism, scrutinizing the political rhetoric and media coverage associated with the threat. Other researchers investigated the public's elevated worries about terrorism and their effect on public opinion, while still other analysts elucidated the post-9/11 changes in U.S. foreign and domestic policies. In Freaking Out: A Decade of Living with Terrorism, Joshua Woods unites these areas of research, interweaving the sociology and psychology of terrorism, to create a broader and more compelling explanation of how the attacks on ... Read more
After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in several directions. Some scholars examined the social construction of terrorism, scrutinizing the political rhetoric and media coverage associated with the threat. Other researchers investigated the public's elevated worries about terrorism and their effect on public opinion, while still other analysts elucidated the post-9/11 changes in U.S. foreign and domestic policies. In Freaking Out: A Decade of Living with Terrorism, Joshua Woods unites these areas of research, interweaving the sociology and psychology of terrorism, to create a broader and more compelling explanation of how the attacks on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597976664
SKU
KEX0295466
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Ref
99-1
About Joshua Woods
JOSHUA WOODS is an assistant professor of sociology at West Virginia University. He is the editor of America: Sovereign Defender or Cowboy Nation? (Ashgate, 2005). He lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Reviews for Freaking Out: A Decade of Living with Terrorism
Freaking Out is an extraordinary literary contribution on the topic of terrorism. In it Woods crisscrosses back and forth between academic disciplines, changing lenses from psychology to sociology to political science and communications studies and back again to provide an incredibly insightful look at the effects of 9/11 and the U.S. response to it. The book is very well researched, ... Read more