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1 online resource (345 pages). |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 26
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Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 26.
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| Summary |
"On July 22, 2011 a 32 year old far right activist clothed as a police officer opened fire on a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya Island in Norway, slaughtering 69 people and maiming many more. The vast majority of the victims were between 14 and 19 years of age. He also placed bombs in a government building in Oslo, killing 8 and wounding others. In a 1,500 page manifesto in English posted on the internet hours before the massacres in which he referred to himself as a "Marxist hunter," he declared "preemptive war," targeting "Cultural Marxists" who propagate a "multiculturalist," ideology to which he attributed the decay of Western European and American "civilization and culture" and the promotion of a pro-Islamic "Eurabia." What is compelling about this story is less what the content of the killer's easily downloadable manuscript reveals about far right thinking, than how the significance of the event was concealed and silenced as it was interpreted for the public by journalists and political figures. By characterizing Breivik as an evil 'aberration' and abstracting his acts from the social and political context in which they took place, persuasive political arbiters and media reproduced what Allan Pred referred to as "situated ignorance," keeping people from attaining a more accurate knowledge and understanding of the events"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: Light in Dark Times -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Making Sense of Our Contemporary Moment of Danger -- Part One: Critical Spatiality -- Angelus Novus (from back) -- 2 It's time: The Cultural Politics of Memory in the Current Moment of Danger -- 3 Skinning the Skinning -- Part Two: Situated Practices -- From Allan's notes on Benjamin -- 4 Exposing the Nation: Entanglements of Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Post-Apartheid Nationalisms -- 5 In Other Wor(l)ds: Situated Intersectionality in Italy -- 6 Monumental Memory, Moral Superiority, and Contemporary Disconnects: Racisms and Noncitizens in Europe, Then and Now -- Part Three: The Urban and the Spectacular -- From Allan's notes on Benjamin -- 7 The City and Economic Geography: Then and Now -- 8 Situated Spectacle: Cross-Sectional Soil Hermeneutics of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo -- Part Four: Historical Geographies of the Present -- Angelus Novus -- 9 Insurgent Spaces: Power, Place, and Spectacle in Nigeria -- 10 Even in Plurinational Bolivia: Indigeneity, Development, and Racism since Morales -- 11 Moving Targets and Violent Geographies -- Part Five: Biographical Montage of the Present -- 12 A Bronx Chronicle -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Liberty.
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Liberty. |
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media and culture. |
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Terrorism and mass media.
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Terrorism and mass media. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Merrill, Heather.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spaces of danger Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2015 XIII, 326 Seiten |
| ISBN |
0820348759 (electronic book) |
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9780820348759 (electronic book) |
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9780820348766 |
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0820348767 |
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9780820348773 |
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0820348775 |
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