The Spectacle of Terrorism: Exploring the Notions of ‘Blind Acting Out’ and ‘Phatic Communication’
The present paper proposes the parallels between ‘staged’ incidences of terrorism and ‘spectacular public disorder’ as a supplementary reading of terrorism. I claim that, while the spectacular in both is not 'par se'- or even an exhaustive- account of how terrorism functions, there is an a...
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| Language: | English |
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University of St Andrews
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Terrorism Research |
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| Online Access: | http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/articles/1192 |