- Title
- Global risk and the surveillance state: a sociology of new terrorism
- Creator
- Freij, Maria; Germov, John
- Relation
- Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society p. 372-396
- Relation
- http://www.allenandunwin.com/publicsociology
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Sociologists look at the underlying causes of terrorism. While a multitude of books have been published on the topic of terrorism, violence, and war, the sociology of terrorism remains a relatively new field and an under-studied area. A sociological analysis of terrorism questions who is a terrorist as well as who decides who is a terrorist. Since terrorist acts are often justified by a perceived notion of social or political oppression, we must recognise the societal structures that create these perceptions, and also the social divides that exist between and within societies-differing political, ideological, cultural, and religious worldviews. As such, it is imperative that we look to the reasons behind terrorism, that we attempt to learn why and how terrorism occurs.
- Description
- 2nd ed.
- Subject
- terrorism; national security; surveillance state; risk society
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036588
- Identifier
- uon:13318
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781742371450
- Language
- eng
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