Shock and Awe

War on Words

Author: Bregje van Eekelen
ISBN: 9780971254602

If you don’t know what to say about global war, you need a dictionary. Shock and Awe: War on Words is just that: a keywords book that participates in a battle over the imagination, acknowledging the force of words, concepts, and images in framing our everyday lives. Located in the borderlands between scholarship and public culture, it re-appropriates our vocabularies by exploring the political trajectories of world-making words, projects, and images.You hear yourself use the word terrorism, and uncannily find yourself participating in its life, its proliferation, its reality. Willy-nilly you’ve become a participant in a world-making project of anxiety and antagonism. While it is impossible to completely give up on terms like peace, family, and security, to use them is to become a stranger in one’s own world. Yet how can we envision an alternative if our very imagination, the very definition of “the social” and the shape of “the political” are under attack?Rather than bein

Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publish Date: 2004-01-01

Subjects: Political Science / History & Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Military/War)