Masco The Theater of Operations

National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7599-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

The anthropologist Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Masco, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. The "New" Normal 1

1. "Survival Is Your Business": Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America 45

2. Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis 77

3. Sensitive but Unclassified: Secrecy and the Counterterror State 113

4. Biosecurity Noir: WMDs in a World without Borders 145

5. Living Counterterror 193

Acknowledgments 211

Notes 213

References 233

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Masco is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico, winner of the J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research and the Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science.