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Full-Text Articles in American Politics
International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
Ratnesh Dwivedi
"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …
Equality News (Summer 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Summer 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Spring 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Spring 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Equality News (Winter 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality News (Winter 2008), Matthew R. Dubois
Equality news / EqualityMaine (2004-2008)
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Excerpt From Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy And Power In American Culture (Revised And Updated Edition), Mark Fenster
Excerpt From Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy And Power In American Culture (Revised And Updated Edition), Mark Fenster
Mark Fenster
This is the introduction to the revised and updated edition of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2008). The book challenges the dominant academic and popular approach to conspiracy theories, which views them as a paranoid, extremist expression of marginal groups and individuals that pathologically challenges the basic assumptions of American history and the pluralistic political system of the United States. The book is premised on the contrary proposition that the prevalence of conspiracy theories is neither necessarily pernicious nor external to American politics and culture but instead an integral aspect of …