Terrorism and disaster new threats, new ideas

The terror attacks of 9.11 signalled that people are increasingly put at risk of not only terrorism but natural and technological disasters as well. Since 9.11 scholars have been asking new questions about catastrophe and made important and interesting innovations in methods, concepts, and theories...

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Other Authors Clarke, Lee Ben
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2003.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesResearch in social problems and public policy ; v. 11.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502276
1849502277
9780762310432
076231043X
ISSN1096-1152 ;
DOI10.1016/S0196-1152(2003)11
Physical Description1 online resource (vii, 141 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 9.11 as disaster: on worst cases, terrorism, and catastrophe / Lee Clarke
  • A civil defense against terror / Orlando Rodriguez
  • Empire of fear: imagined community and the September 11 attacks / Ann Larabee
  • Disaster beliefs and institutional interests: recycling disaster myths in the aftermath of 9--11 / Kathleen Tierney
  • The fox and the hedgehog: myopia about homeland security in U.S. policies / James K. Mitchell
  • Terrorism as disaster: selected commonalities and long--term recovery for 9/11 survivors / Brent K. Marshall, J. Steven Picou and Duane A. Gill
  • Reconsidering convergence and converger legitimacy in response to the World Trade Center disaster / James M. Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf
  • Conceptualizing responses to extreme events: the problem of panic and failing gracefully / Lee Clarke.