Terror and performance / Rustom Bharucha.

In this 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bharucha, Rustom, 1953- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Subjects:
Terrorism > Psychological aspects.
Terrorism > Social aspects.
Terror.
Physical Description:xvii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: mapping terror in the war of words
  • Genet in Manila: 'September 11' in retrospect : I. Pre-terror ; II. Discourse ; III. Exit the theatre
  • 'Muslims' in a time of terror: deceptions, demonization, and uncertainties of evidence : I. Phantoms of the Muslim as terrorist ; II. The terror of the real
  • Countering terror? The search for justice in truth and reconciliation : I. Mapping the terrain ; II. Rwanda ; III. South Africa ; IV. Key motifs of truth and reconciliation
  • Performing non-violence in the age of terror.