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The Terrorist At My Table
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Author : Imtiaz Dharker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2007-06
The Terrorist At My Table written by Imtiaz Dharker and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06 with Poetry categories.
This Is Life Seen Through Distorting Screens A Windscreen, Tv Screen, Newsprint, Mirror, Water, Breath, Heat Haze, Smokescreen. The Terrorist At My Table Asks Crucial Questions About How We Live Now Working, Travelling, Eating, Listening To The News, Preparing For Attack. What Do Any Of Us Know About The Person Who Shares This Street, This House, This Table, This Body? When Life Is In The Hands Of A Fellow-Traveller, A Neighbour, A Lover, Son Or Daughter, How Does The World Shift And Reform Itself Around Our Doubt, Our Belief? Imtiaz Dharker S Poems And Pictures In This Book Hurtle Through A World That Changes Even As We Pass. The Book Grows, Layer By Layer, Through Three Sequences The Terrorist At My Table , The Habit Of Departure And Worldwide Rickshaw Ride Each Cutting A Different Slice Through The Terrain Of What We Think Of As Normal. But Through All The Uncertainties And Concealments, Her Poems Unveil The Delicate Skin Of Love, Trust And Sudden Recognition.
I Speak For The Devil
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Author : Imtiaz Dharker
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
Release Date : 2001
I Speak For The Devil written by Imtiaz Dharker and has been published by Bloodaxe Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Poetry categories.
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between India and London. She draws upon this life of transitions for the themes in her second book: childhood, exile, journeying, home, and religious strife. In this collection the woman's body is a territory, a thing that is possessed, owned by herself or by another. Her sequence, "They'll say, She must be from another country,'" traces a journey, starting with a striptease where the claims of nationality, religion and her veil, and gender are cast off, to allow an explanation of new territories, the spaces between countries, cultures, and religions. The powerful sequence of "devil" poems acknowledges that in many societies women are respected, or listened to, only when they are carrying someone else in their bodies-a child; a devil. For some, to be "possessed" is to be set free. "A pleasure to read."-World Literature Today
Terrorists And Terrorism In The Contemporary World
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Author : David J. Whittaker
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Terrorists And Terrorism In The Contemporary World written by David J. Whittaker and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The first introductory book to focus on terrorists themselves, looking at the mindset, motivation and tactics of a variety of terrorist groupd.
Postcards From God
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Author : Imtiaz Dharker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Postcards From God written by Imtiaz Dharker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Pakistan categories.
Terrorism Talking And Transformation
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Author : Harmonie Toros
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-02-27
Terrorism Talking And Transformation written by Harmonie Toros and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-27 with Political Science categories.
Using rare field research, this book investigates whether and how talking may transform terrorist violence. Given the failings of today’s dominant counterterrorism strategy, is talking a viable policy option to transform conflicts marked by terrorist violence? This book examines the reasons why "negotiating with terrorists" is so often shunned by decision-makers and scholars as a policy response, concluding that such objections are primarily based on a realist and statist understanding of terrorism that has dominated the field so far. Based on interviews with top rebel and military commanders in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao and interviewing key actors in Northern Ireland, Terrorism, Talking and Transformation investigates how talking may contribute to the transformation of conflicts marked by terrorist violence. The result of this analysis is a theoretically grounded, empirically recognizable and emancipation oriented framework that can be used to investigate the potential of talking in transforming not only terrorist (and counterterrorist) violence, but also the underlying structural violence that often surrounds it. This book will be of much interest to students in the fields of terrorism studies, security studies, Southeast Asian studies, conflict resolution/transformation and IR in general, and of use to practitioners in the field.
Terrorism Risk And The City
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Author : Jon Coaffee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-24
Terrorism Risk And The City written by Jon Coaffee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with Science categories.
The development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during recent years, and has become particularly relevant in the aftermath of September 11th. Dealing with issues of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary western cities, this book examines how the perceived risk of terrorist attack led to changes in the physical form and institutional infrastructure of the city of London during the 1990s when the city was a prime terrorist target. The book analyses how the various formal and informal strategies adopted in the City attempted to reduce both the physical and financial risk of terrorism. This was undertaken through a series of place-specific security initiatives and risk management policies which led to increased fortification, a substantial rise in terrorism insurance premiums, and, changing institutional relations at a variety of spatial scales. It also argues that the security measures deployed were developed not in terms of an anti-terrorist effort, but in relation to the unintended by-products of these approaches such as crime reduction and enhanced traffic management capabilities.
Luck Is The Hook
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Author : Imtiaz Dharker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Luck Is The Hook written by Imtiaz Dharker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Fortune categories.
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Luck Is the Hook is her sixth book from Bloodaxe. In these poems, chance plays a part in finding or losing people and places that are loved: a change in the weather, a trick of language, a bomb that misses its mark, six pomegranate seeds eaten by mistake; all these events cast long shadows and raise questions about who is recording them, about believing, not believing, wanting to believe. A knot undone at Loch Lomond snags over Glasgow, a seal swims in the Clyde, a ghost stalks her quarry at a stepped well, an elephant and a cathedral come face to face on the frozen Thames, a return ticket is thrown into the tide of Humber, strangers wash in. Even in an uncertain world, love tangles with luck, flights show up on the radar and technology keeps track of desire. Imtiaz Dharker was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2014 for Over the Moon and for her services to poetry.
When Does Terrorism Work
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Author : Diego Muro
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-27
When Does Terrorism Work written by Diego Muro and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-27 with Political Science categories.
This book examines the question of when terrorism works. Determining if political violence is effective and, if at all possible, when it is effective, is vital for both intellectual and practical reasons. The volume contains chapters from scholars who have been at the forefront of the efficaciousness debate and argues that terrorism can be effective in delivering tactical returns but is largely ineffective in realizing strategic goals. The book considers the pros and cons of choosing coercive intimidation to serve political ends from both a theoretical perspective and case study approach. It also outlines some of the methodological problems inherent in the academic debate that has taken place thus far on the subject, and suggests ways forward for making future scholarship in this area more inclusive, systematic and dialogically fruitful than it has been to date.
Overblown
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Author : John Mueller
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-11-14
Overblown written by John Mueller and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-14 with Political Science categories.
Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11? It is ridiculously easy for a single person with a bomb-filled backpack, or a single explosives-laden automobile, to launch an attack. So why hasn't it happened? The answer is surely not the Department of Homeland Security, which cannot stop terrorists from entering the country, legally or otherwise. It is surely not the Iraq war, which has stoked the hatred of Muslim extremists around the world and wasted many thousands of lives. Terrorist attacks have been regular events for many years -- usually killing handfuls of people, occasionally more than that. Is it possible that there is a simple explanation for the peaceful American homefront? Is it possible that there are no al-Qaeda terrorists here? Is it possible that the war on terror has been a radical overreaction to a rare event? Consider: 80,000 Arab and Muslim immigrants have been subjected to fingerprinting and registration, and more than 5,000 foreign nationals have been imprisoned -- yet there has not been a single conviction for a terrorist crime in America. A handful of plots -- some deadly, some intercepted -- have plagued Europe and elsewhere, and even so, the death toll has been modest. We have gone to war in two countries and killed tens of thousands of people. We have launched a massive domestic wiretapping program and created vast databases of information once considered private. Politicians and pundits have berated us about national security and patriotic duty, while encroaching our freedoms and sending thousands of young men off to die. It is time to consider the hypothesis that dare not speak its name: we have wildly overreacted. Terrorism has been used by murderous groups for many decades, yet even including 9/11, the odds of an American being killed by international terrorism are microscopic. In general, international terrorism doesn't do much damage when considered in almost any reasonable context. The capacity of al-Qaeda or of any similar group to do damage in the United States pales in comparison to the capacity other dedicated enemies, particularly international Communism, have possessed in the past. Lashing out at the terrorist threat is frequently an exercise in self-flagellation because it is usually more expensive than the terrorist attack itself and because it gives the terrorists exactly what they are looking for. Much, probably most, of the money and effort expended on counterterrorism since 2001 (and before, for that matter) has been wasted. The terrorism industry and its allies in the White House and Congress have preyed on our fears and caused enormous damage. It is time to rethink the entire enterprise and spend much smaller amounts on only those things that do matter: intelligence, law enforcement, and disruption of radical groups overseas. Above all, it is time to stop playing into the terrorists' hands, by fear-mongering and helping spread terror itself.
Terror And Performance
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Author : Rustom Bharucha
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-16
Terror And Performance written by Rustom Bharucha and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-16 with Performing Arts categories.
‘This work goes where other books fear to tread. It reaches the parts other scholars might imagine in their dreams but would neither have the international reach nor the critical acumen and forensic flourish to deliver.’ Alan Read, King's College London ‘This book is not only timely. It is overdue – and it is a masterpiece unrivalled by any book I know of.’ Erika Fischer-Lichte, Freie Universität Berlin ‘The first and only book that focuses on the intersections of performance, terror and terrorism as played out beyond a Euro-American context post-9/11. It is an important work, both substantively and methodologically.’ Jenny Hughes, University of Manchester ‘A profound and tightly bound sequence of reflections ... a rigorously provocative book.’ Stephen Barber, Kingston University London In this exceptional investigation Rustom Bharucha considers the realities of Islamophobia, the legacies of Truth and Reconciliation, the deadly certitudes of State-controlled security systems and the legitimacy of counter-terror terrorism, drawing on a vast spectrum of human cruelties across the global South. The outcome is a brilliantly argued case for seeing terror as a volatile and mutant phenomenon that is deeply lived, experienced, and performed within the cultures of everyday life.