Social theory of fear terror, torture, and death in a post-capitalist world

Fear has long served elites. They rely on fear to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. They shaped these fears so that peopl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Skoll, Geoffrey R., 1948- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2010.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44541399*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Capitalism's collapse
  • States and social control
  • Law and terror
  • Terror, law, and torture
  • Camps, gallows, ghettos, gulags, and prisons
  • The rise of the icon
  • Modernism to postmodernism and beyond
  • Resistance and the fight against repression
  • The rebel.