Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Fear: a conceptual framework by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith
Part One: Cultures of Fear
2. The New War against Terror by Noam Chomsky
3. Engineering Ruins and Affect by Joseph Masco
4. Terrorism and the Politics of Fear by David L.
5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Žižek
Part Two: States of Terror
6. Human Rights and Complex Emergencies by Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur
7. Speechless Emissaries by Liisa H. Malkki
8. Trauma and Vulnerability During War by Doug Henry
9. The Violence of Humanitarianism by Miriam Ticktin
Part Three: Zones of Violence
10. Gender, Terrorism, and War by Susan J. Brison
11. The Continuum of Violence by Cynthia Cockburn
12. Child Soldiers by Julia Dickson-Gómez
13. Girls Behind the (Front) Lines by Carolyn Nordstrom
14. On the Run by Solrun Williksen
Part Four: Intimacies of Suffering
15. War and Sexual Violence by Elisabeth Jean Wood
16. Militarizing Women's Lives by Cynthia Enloe
17. The Political Economy of Rape by Meredeth Turshen
18. On the Torture of Others by Susan Sontag
Part Five: Normalizing Terror
19. Cultural Appropriations of Suffering by Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman
20. The Biopolitics of Disposability by Henry A. Giroux
21. Empire of Camps by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Index

About the Author

Uli Linke is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology in the US. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear.

Danielle Taana Smith is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at RIT. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear (Pluto, 2009).