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1 online resource (210 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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New approaches to conflict analysis
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New approaches to conflict analysis.
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New Approaches to Conflict Analysis MUP.
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| Summary |
A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction of post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. The book combines literature from continental philosophy, sociology of death and disaster recovery to empirically and theoretically challenge existing ideas of security. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: death and security -- the only two certainties -- 1 The problem of dying while resilient -- The disastrous genius of resilience? -- A new discourse? -- Thinking resilience policy as postmodern death effacement -- 2 Containing the spectacle: disaster management -- No future, no security? The strange emptiness of emergency response policy -- Performing the cordon, knowledge and emergency management -- Act One: emergency declaration and temporal bounding -- Act Two: walking the cordon -- Act Three: knowing the bodies -- Act Four: boring the emergency out of existence -- Curtain falls? The move to disaster recovery -- Note -- 3 Reflecting absence? Disaster recovery and the World Trade Center -- Thinking memory and trauma practices as security -- Policy, history and the memorial -- Reflecting absence? -- The survivor trees -- The Slurry Wall -- Concluding thoughts on the appropriation of absence -- Notes -- 4 Reclaiming place and self-harming architecture: Norwegian experiences of death and security -- Memory Wound: architectural self-harm? -- Taking back Utøya: dissipating mortality, reclaiming place -- Disaster recovery as urban renewal: Oslo Government Quarter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Mutating disaster space: itinerant death at the Ground Zero Mosque and Bali bombsite -- Ground Zero Mosque? Expanding the boundaries of Ground Zero -- Human remains in landfills, human remains 'on display' -- Death in paradise: introducing Bali -- Dancing and shopping on sites of mass death: mutating bombsites -- Conclusion: itinerant bombsites and the wandering of mortality -- Notes -- 6 Bombs without bombsites: memory and security without visibility -- 7/.7 and the security ambiguity of dying underground. |
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The return of the repressed: De Oppresso Liber -- Making invisible: memorials as commodity -- Conclusion -- Note -- Conclusion: pathologising security through Lacanian desire -- Lacanian desire -- Security as objet petit a -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Terrorism -- Psychological aspects.
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Terrorism -- Psychological aspects. |
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Bombings.
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Bombings. |
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Memorialization.
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Memorialization. |
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Mortality.
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Mortality. |
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Security (Psychology)
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Security (Psychology) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heath-Kelly, Charlotte. Death and Security : Memory and Mortality at the Bombsite. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2016 |
| ISBN |
9781526108128 (electronic book) |
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1526108127 (electronic book) |
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